My vet just handed me a letter she got at a meeting. Emergency order 1AHO-06 To: All persons involved in the breding, dealing, transport, auction or ownership...
I just called MDAR and asked them about the order. It is the notification that MA has taken as mandatory the full extent of the USDA/APHIS Scrapie Eradication...
Ellen -- I got the letter in January (see my post "MA as a 'Consistent' State". Pat -- Thanks for the call into MDAR. --Tricia Smith Carlisle Farmstead Cheese ...
Senate Docket 1472 officially has a Senate Bill Number . It's 475. This bill, if it passes, will stop NAIS in all its forms; Premises, Tagging and Tracking....
The "Executive Branch Reform Act" (H.R. 984) was introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman [CA-30] back in February. Section 2 of the bill will require all officials in...
First of all, I'd like to thank Ben Grosscup for including me in the Mass Email update about NOFA/MA work on NAIS. However, I'd like to clarify that the Senate...
In hopes of further clarifying for members of this list, there are two anti-NAIS bills that are currently filed in the Massachusetts Legislature by Senator...
This is a forward. Let me know if you have trouble reading the new format of this message. Thanks, Ben NOFA Mass NOFA/Mass Update on NAIS * * *April 20, 2007*...
Two important messages below: one urgent one not. Ben Grosscup Northeast Organic Farming Association, Massachusetts Chapter 22 High St #1, Amherst, MA ...
The Hearing with the Joint Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture will be in the Cape Cod Lounge at U-Mass Amherst, in the Student...
***ACTION ALERT*** FARM BILL PAVES WAY FOR MANDATORY NAIS CALL YOUR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE Yesterday, July 19, the U.S. House Ag. Committee passed the Farm...
In the last few days we have gotten numerous messages regarding the state of NAIS (National Animal Identification System) and COOL (Country of Origin Labeling)...
URGENT ALERT: Call the Senate Agriculture Committee IMMEDIATELY. The Senate Agriculture Committee has just released the draft language of the Farm Bill, which...
Update on the Farm Bill: Call Your Senators The Senate Agriculture Committee approved the Farm Bill with Section 10305, which defines NAIS and provides...
LIBERTY ARK: Keep up the Calls on the Farm Bill! The Senate continues to debate the Farm Bill, and there are some behind-the-scenes negotiations occurring over...
USDA Releases New Technical DocumentBut not the promised Business Plan This summer, the US House of Representatives stated that the USDA had to prepare and...
Where is everybody? Did ya notice the jump in premises registration numbers in Mass. On 12/11/07 Massachusetts had 1,685 premises registered or 47.4%. but on...
Clearly, the jump in MA premise numbers represents all the people who didn't reply in protest when they notified us in November that we had two weeks to...
... To add to my original message, they said at the time that they had notified something like 10,000 farmers -- was that the number? Does anyone remember the...
Yes Bonnie, the number was 10,000. However, if you look at the numbers that they report, they really don't make any sense. I know that early on in the "Opt...
If the NAIS is not defeated we all need to be prepared for more cruelty and abandonment of horses. While our horses will never be allowed to suffer I fear for...
Washington Post March 15, 2008 150,000 small farmers and horse owners have converged on the Washington Mall carrying protest signs reading "NO NAIS IN THE 48"....
NO NAIS March on Washington Hello everyone, I had no idea what response this thread would create when I started it 24 hours ago! I have read all the responses...
no NAIS march on DC A new group had been formed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noNAISmarchonDC/ to coordinate a NAIS protest in cooperation with Farm Food...
[ ] <wlmailhtml:{A9FEFE52-B9F6-42ED-B95C-61C40F0C85A8}mid://00000004/!x-usc:\ http://www.addisequineauctions.com/> 2/1/2008 From The Auction Block February...
USDA… NAIS and the small farm Is the USDA really protecting the nation's food supply? Will NAIS help? On January 30th 2008 the HSUS released a video of...
Yesterday February 2, 2008 Vermont farmer Sharon Zecchinelli was to debate NAIS with United States Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Bruce Knight on...
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