Old NAIS vs. New NAIS: No Way! No How!

PPJ Gazette - The good news is the federal government has abandoned its original National Animal Identification System (NAIS).

The bad news is they just gave it a new alphabet name; National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA).

Under US Code & Title, Agricultural dictates are listed as non-positive law, as is Commerce.  What this means is that although they have written corporate codes, statutes and regulations and they can site them as existing……these same codes, regulations and statutes are not enforceable by the federal government as they are not in the enumerated powers of the federal government.  This renders them “non-positive”.  And this is why government has created autonomous agencies which are incorporated and for-profit.  These corporations then write the necessary rules and regulations and buy access to the states via cooperative agreements with state agencies, also incorporated and operating for-profit.  Its corporate contract business.

The stated goal of using an animal ID program to trace back disease has never been the true reason for this attempt at forcing farmers and ranchers and even pet and hobby owners to chip and record their animals of all kinds and hand those records over to the federal government.  Of course this will be accomplished using the same methods used under the old NAIS. 

Using the tried and true method of buying their way into the states via cooperative funding agreements (bribery), USDA now plans to buy access inside state boundaries for the new USDA/NIAA business plan which is really just the revamped NAIS all polished up looking shiny and new!  It’s the “new & improved” NAIS…….but its still just NAIS.

The old NAIS would have created a coveted “national herd” by converting private livestock owners into “Stakeholders” and would render owners as only managers and operators of their own livestock and property.  USDA would actually own the livestock by virtue of the conveyance of property that would result from being forced into the Premises ID property forfeiture scheme wherein the actual ownership of personal and private property would be conveyed to the federal government with the USDA acting as agent. 

Under the new NAIS, now called NIAA……same deal. 

If either of these schemes to seize land and livestock had anything in reality to do with tracking back disease, I doubt USDA would have shut down so many livestock disease programs over the last few years.  Even the Johne’s epidemic seems not to attract much of USDA’s interests or its funding.

The fact is, an adequate system for identifying the origination of disease is already in place.  Copious vet records on livestock are kept by farmers and ranchers and no livestock can be delivered for slaughter without a vet certification record which is checked upon arrival to the processor.  In fact, a hauler won’t even load livestock without proper documentation.  As USDA routinely certifies animals with cancerous growths, obvious infections and other debilitating factors as fit for human consumption, and, seeing as how this certification is not about to change even under the new and slicker version of NAIS….why bother?

Then there is that nagging question as to why ALL animals of every stripe and kind would have to be tagged and recorded and ALL agricultural property would have to have a Premises Id number.  The fact is, the new NAIS is no different than the old NAIS……its just a system of legalized theft of private property committed under a fiction of law; enforced under the color of law and constitutes fraud on the public.

While those promoting these plans desperately attempt to paint those who oppose the business plans of the USDA, as “conspiracy theorists” or those suffering from paranoid delusions about black helicopters swooping in, several states including Wisconsin, Missouri, North Dakota, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois and many others are actively setting about prosecuting and persecuting those who refused to comply with the old NAIS and Premises ID. 

While MSM kept its corporate lips zipped, farmers and ranchers in nearly every state of the union were being served papers charging them with the “crime” of refusing to comply with a federal mandate that clearly violated their rights and would have allowed a mandated theft of property.  Not one MSM outlet has reported on the number of private farmers and ranchers who are being hauled into administrative courts and fined for refusing to forfeit their property.  In Wisconsin under Article 95 from DATCP, they can even be sent to prison.

As it turns out, there is really no way USDA can build a logical argument for NAIS whether it is the old version or the new.  USDA will not admit the plan is not workable and they surely will not admit that it was never intended to be workable as a disease tracing program.  It was never about disease traceability.  That was just the propaganda used to try and sell the business plan with as little opposition as possible.

Even after fifteen listening sessions in which USDA panels were inundated with negative reactions by a far more informed and educated agricultural community than they had anticipated; USDA realized it had committed a gross error in judgment.  These farmers and ranchers were not the uneducated, easily duped lot they had assumed they were. 

Furthermore, although none of those pushing the new and improved version of NAIS will tell you, the system is already in place that allows for tracking and tracing the origin of a sick animal, and has been for many years.

The idea that somehow states would have to piece together some plan suitable to USDA business plans is soundly rejected.  States already have more than adequate programs in place for disease testing and tracing.  And since the USDA has bribed so many states to implement NAIS/Premesis ID through their autonomous corporate state agricultural agencies which masquerade as “public offices”, we can’t help but wonder why there is another attempt to mandate NAIS?  The idea that USDA is willing to work “closely” with states ought to be enough to bring the peasants out into the streets with pitchforks and torches. 

As every state is suffering from financial hardships due to mismanagement by corporate state agencies on nearly every level, USDA is of course offering bundles of cash to those willing to participate in their business plans.  USDA has plenty of cash to pass around: as a corporation with rule-making (law-making) authority, USDA is also a for-profit corporation and is well funded not only by infusions of cash from taxpayers, but business deals with multi-national and domestic corporations.  The states hardest hit for cash will be the first states to get a few bags full of USDA corporate funding.  God help the Indian tribes!

By the way, if the new version (NIAA) doesn’t get the job done, USDA will simply fall back and re-group and come out with a new name for the same old NAIS.

Vilsack’s proposal, while seeming to offer some kind of false hope, is nothing more than the repackaging and redistribution of the old NAIS.  It will be just as costly, intrusive and not at all effective…..at least not in the area of disease trace-back.   And, the old NAIS now called NIAA will still result in a conveyance of title to property should you be foolish enough to sign up. 

The new NAIS vs the old NAIS?  Either way; you’re screwed!

****Title 7 US Code as Non-Positive Law

“Title 7 not revised, codified or enacted into positive law.  Not enforceable and cannot be used as a defense or rebuttal.  Can only be sited as existing.”