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Fighting NAIS tooth and nailI am fighting NAIS tooth and nail. There are dozens of reasons, but here are just a few. Why did the USDA claim we need NAIS to monitor bovine spongiform encephalopathy, yet when Creekstone Beef wanted to test every carcass for it, the USDA said "no." NAIS is trying to be a one-size-fits-all program, yet there is a huge difference between granny's back yard hens, a pot belly pig in suburbia and the multi-billion dollar corporate ag and factory farms, which this program was ultimately made for. In the NAIS document those who own livestock are called "stakeholder" andthe land upon which the livestock presides is "premises." Contracts use certain words for a reason. The law library states that the word premises signifies a formal part of a deed, and is made to designate an estate; to designate is to name or entitle. Therefore a premises has no protection under the United States Constitution and has no exclusive rights of the owner tied to it. Stakeholder (the term the USDA is using to identify us) refers to a third party who temporarily holds money or propertywhile its owner is still being determined. By signing up for NAIS, title to property rights are clouded, basically making the owner little more than a sharecropper. If NAIS is such a great program, why are there so many anti-NAIS websites popping up with lawyers (and others) showing how NAIS will not be a good thing simply by reading the NAIS document? The GAO is currently running an investigation into all the problems in NAIS, even though they missed the most obvious one, like the fact the majority of the American livestock owners, who, when they find out about NAIS, overwhelmingly do not want it. --Susan Barackman, Paris, Texas
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