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EASTER BUNNY REPORTS: NAIS IS DEAD

By Doreen Hannes

February 18, 2010

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As I reported after returning from the NIAA (National Institute for Animal

Agriculture) meeting last August, rumors of the death of NAIS have been greatly

exaggerated. (Read) The USDA has finally admitted that they have too much

negative publicity surrounding the name NAIS, and that they actually have to do

what they tried to do in the first place: get the states to do their bidding on

'animal identification' and 'traceability' according to World Trade Organization

standards. So yippee. They are only going to exercise their rule-making

authority to control interstate commerce. Well, that's all they had the

authority to do at the outset. So we should be giddy with excitement that they

are openly proclaiming they will do just that now.

Should we be happier than a pig in a puddle because they openly stated that they

will leave animals which never exit the state out of the new plan? They never

had the authority to deal with those animals anyway.unless, of course, you take

money from the USDA. Otherwise, that authority rests with your state. The USDA

will continue to fund the states and work in a 'collaborative' way with states

and industry (continuing the Public Private Partnership otherwise known as

fascism) to develop the " minimum standards " that must be followed in order to

participate in interstate commerce...