The USDA is holding a NAIS Listening Session at U-Conn, Storrs, CT on May 27, 2009. Please attend if you can. Request speaking time if you want to, or bring written statements. If you just want to show up that's fine. We need the USDA to see that NAIS is unnecessary, unwarranted and why that's true.

Storrs, CT
University of Connecticut
Storrs Campus - Bishop Center
One Bishop Circle
Storrs, CT 06269
Room 7

For more information please visit the USDA's APHIS site at

http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/feedback

Please try to attend a meeting near you. If you can't, then please send your comments to The Federal Registry at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2009-0027

If you are planning to attend, and wish to try and comment, Send an email to mailto:NAISSessions@... In the subject line of the e-mail, indicate your name (or organization name) and the location of the meeting you plan to attend. If you wish to present public comments during one of the meetings, please include your name (or organization name) and address in the body of the message.
Call 301-734-0799 to register by phone.

You can also submit written comments at the Federal Registry Site shown above.
For those who can attend a meeting, please bring written statements to submit when you register.

This is a great opportunity to show the USDA just how MUCH opposition there is to NAIS. They are determined to enact such a program, and are looking for compromises that farmers like myself can live with. Please visit www.ftcldf.org, www.libertyark.net or www.farmandranchfreedom.org for more information about what to say in your statements.

Also, contact your local media. Bring digital cameras and send the pictures through the Internet to show how many people are against NAIS. Sessions will be held throughout the country through June 25, so promoting the early session turnouts may build future turnouts for the later sessions.

Feel free to contact me at Farm@... if you have any questions. Spread the word. Thank you.