The NAIS (National Animal Identification System) will be the final death of liberty in this country, robbing us of our last common law right, the right to farm.

For quite a while now, the USDA has been working with the very largest scale animal industry organizations, (for example, The National Pork Producers, Monsanto Company, and Cargill Meat), to develop a mandatory "National Animal Identification System" (NAIS). Most small scale livestock producers, people who raise animals for thier own food, and people who keep horses and livestock as companion animals do not know about this. The NAIS will drive small producers out of the market, will force people to stop raising animls for thier own food, and will invade our privacy to an extreme degree. It will violate the religios freedoms of Americans whose beliefs make it impossible for them to comply, and will destroy the last vestiges of animal welfare from the production of animals for food.

By January 1, 2008, the NAIS will be mandatory. Every person who owns even one horse, cow, pig, chicken, sheep, pigeon, or virtually any livestock animal, will be forced to register thier home, including the owners name, address and phone number, and keyed to Global Positioning System coordinates for satellite monitoring in a giant federal database under a 7-digit "premises id number." Every animal wil be assigned a 15 digit I.D. number, also to be kept in a federal database. The id will likely be a tag or microchip containing a Radio Frequency Device, designed to be read from a distance.

What you can do: Small scale keepers of poultry and other livestock can take action to create an effective movement in opposition to the USDA plan. First, small scale livestock owners SHOULD NOT participate in any "voluntary" state or federal program to register farms or animals. For more information on how we will resist and ultimately defeat the NAIS, join this group and network with us!