Veterans Against NAIS

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Throughout our history, veterans of every stripe have answered our country's call to serve and defend our beloved nation. Memories of home and family, their cherished way of life and their hopes and dreams for the future made it possible for our veterans to endure unimaginable hardships. Countless of these brave men and women drew strength from warm thoughts of family life back on the farm or ranch. Even more dreamed of returning from service to their country finally able to realize a lifelong dream of owning a piece of land and providing for their families and their country once again by raising food. Our country's farms and ranches are made up of these rugged folks who know how to respond when duty calls.

Now recently comes this program called National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Born of greed for more profits from big businesses and crammed down the unsuspecting throat of every person who owns one livestock animal, even one chicken, one horse or one goat, NAIS would subject millions of farmers and ranchers and tens of thousands of veterans to the biggest intrusion of privacy and violation of private property rights in the history of mankind. By forcing every veteran who owns even one animal to register their premises and report every movement of every animal they own to the government within 24 hours, NAIS would subject veterans who raise even a backyard flock of chickens to more government surveillance than illegal aliens, terrorists, and child molesters. If you support our veterans, you should be outraged.

Most people have never heard of NAIS for a reason. It has not been widely covered by the media and we were not asked if we want to participate in it. A simple online search for "NAIS opposition", however, will provide you with all the information you need to know about this unpatriotic program that has already wasted over $100 million of our tax payer dollars. The initial level of public resistance to NAIS has already provided signs that the program will eventually collapse due to ongoing overwhelming opposition. Smart polititians are already distancing themselves from it.

To our president, representatives in Congress, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and any State representatives who may be foolish enough to support NAIS,

We are your nation's veterans. We have answered your call and served you with honor and dignity. You cannot dismiss our voices. We are your greatest patriots. We have been willing to bear any burden, sacrifice our health and even lay down our lives for our country when needed. Now you ask too much. We do not take our freedoms lightly. We know full well their cost. We paid for them, many of us dearly. We deserve to enjoy the ability to raise food for our families and our neighbors without this level of intrusion and we will not tolerate NAIS. This was never part of the bargain we made with the great country we love. If you are in support of NAIS, you have been mislead, but we are willing once again to lead you out of the darkness. Remember, for every misguided veteran or person in uniform trotted out in support of NAIS, there will be a hundred of us to answer. We have emerged victorious from much greater struggles than this before. You still have time to reverse course and abandon this program. NAIS is an unwise, intrusive and wasteful idea whose time has passed. Rest assured, if you insist on moving forward with NAIS, we will stand together and we will defeat it.		Veterans Against NAIS

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  1. Fri., Feb. 5, 2010 3:34 PM    link Barbara C. | Plainview, TX

  2. Thu., Dec. 31, 2009 10:09 AM    link Susan K. | Indianapolis, IN

    The best way to solve the healthcare and food safety problems is to assist ALL farmers to transition to organic, sustainable, pasture-based farming. NAIS does not solve either of these problems, just continues to drain the taxpayers of money and farmers of their liberty.

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  4. Wed., Dec. 9, 2009 11:10 AM    link mary s. | Delavan, WI

  5. Fri., Oct. 23, 2009 11:41 AM    link Cheri S. | Oakland, CA

  6. Tue., Sep. 1, 2009 2:16 AM    link Norma C R. | Saint Paul, MN

    I'm not a vet but I have 2 brothers and many dear loved friends who fought for this country.what they did NOT fight for was such disregard for the citizens to be used so a bunch of 'hotshot' corporations can get rich at the expense of our health. That's what it really boils down to.

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  8. Fri., Aug. 14, 2009 3:35 PM    link carm m. | Lutherville Timonium, MD

  9. Tue., Aug. 11, 2009 4:46 PM    link mary c. | Odem, TX

  10. Mon., Jul. 27, 2009 6:01 PM    link Benjamin R. | Middleburg, FL

  11. Wed., Jul. 22, 2009 11:36 AM    link John D. | Harrison Twp, MI

    Less government intrusion.

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  13. Tue., Jul. 7, 2009 12:28 PM    link Bruce and Linda D. | Greencastle, PA

    This is shocking and disgraceful. I am ashamed of this government.

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  15. Sat., Jul. 4, 2009 6:20 PM    link greg c. | Mastic, NY

  16. Sat., Jul. 4, 2009 4:25 PM    link Aaron D. | Marshalltown, IA

  17. Thu., Jul. 2, 2009 12:07 AM    link Josh O. | Vassar, MI

    I am not a veteran but I am AGAINST the NAIS!!! Please do not take away our rights like this. This will destroy the small farmes and people just trying to survive by raising their own meat.
    This is not right. Please put a stop to this asap
    Thank you

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  19. Thu., Jul. 2, 2009 12:03 AM    link Michelle O. | Vassar, MI

    I am not a veteran but I am AGAINST the NAIS!!!

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  21. Thu., Jun. 25, 2009 7:45 AM    link Loree G. | Palm Bay, FL

  22. Wed., Jun. 24, 2009 4:42 PM    link steve k. | Golden Valley, AZ

    I am a veteran and I'll speak for my deceased father and grandfather. 38 years combined service to in the USMC. This is an atrocity! We didn't fight for the rights of corporations. We fought for the rights of the American People..FLESH AND BLOOD.

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  24. Thu., Jun. 18, 2009 2:47 PM    link Karen W. | South Haven, MI

    We the people ask you - our public servants - not to undermine us, our farmers, or our food supply with this type of legislation. It will only serve to put me, a small family farmer, out of business and make everything that I do illegal. What it will do is boost sales of products from agri-giant-corporations who feed us GMO, hormones, chemicals and make us sicker as a people every day.
    You have to represent us- not big business - or we will fire you.

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  26. Wed., Jun. 17, 2009 10:59 AM    link Joanne N. | Erie, PA

    My health has become very important to me, and so the food I put in my body is important. I watch, in shock, as my government tries to make it harder for me to gain access to healthy food grown locally by small farmers who care about their land and their animals. Any farmer wanting to do the right thing by raising food and animals without chemicals must wade through mounds of red tape and government fees, while the big food producers produce empty calories from grains subsidized by my tax dollars. So many of my tax dollars are paying for food I don't even eat, while the food I eat costs twice as much or more as conventionally grown food.

    And now my government wants to add an additional financial and logistical burden on a product that reaps no benefit thereby while turning a blind eye to the products that are poisoning people and the land on which they're grown.

    You, my government, are nothing more than a group of the ungoverned. And your cramming this NAIS down our throats is abhorent. I used to be proud of this country; now I'm embarrassed by it and fearful of its leaders because of the power they wield over something as simple as the food I eat.

    Money is a wonderful thing, but a good night's sleep is even better.

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  28. Thu., Jun. 11, 2009 5:27 PM    link Ruth D. | Glen Allen, VA

    NAIS is intrusive, constitutionally questionable, and will surely lead to the demise of many smaller scale farms. What we need now is DECENTRALIZATION, and local farm markets, rather than massive industrial agricultural operations. I strongly oppose NAIS.

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  30. Sun., May. 31, 2009 6:37 PM    link Tim B. | Evanston, IL

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