Re: [blackbelly] Fwd: URGENT-Please help stop NAIS funding at least until it's fixed
Interesting! I never received a reply from my letter/email...and I somewhat expected one from our Idaho Rep, "Butch" Otter! Renee Harrison, Idhao >From: Julian Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info >To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info >Subject: Re: [blackbelly] Fwd: URGENT-Please help stop NAIS funding at >least until it's fixed >Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 23:31:58 -0700 > >At 10:16 PM 5/16/2006, you wrote: > >This was sent by Nathan Griffith, editor of Sheep! Magazine. He obviously > >feels very strongly about this issue. In all the years I've read Sheep! > >Magazine, Nathan has never used his position as editor to try to affect >an > >issue...until now. I urge you to contact your congressman using the link > >provided in his email. Tomorrow afternoon is the deadline for Ron Paul's > >amendment to block funding. > >Here's the reply from my congresscritter: > > >Dear Julian, > > > >Thank you for contacting my office regarding Representative Paul's >amendment to H.R. 5384 the Agriculture Appropriations bill. It is an honor >to represent the people of Eastern Washington and I appreciate you taking >the time to share your thoughts with me. > > > >H.R. 5384 protects our human health and safety by ensuring funding for >Avian Flu, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Animal and Plant Health >Inspection Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and for Bovine >Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). It also fulfills commitments to important >food and nutrition programs such as: Commodity Supplemental Food Program, >Child Nutrition Programs, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, >Infants, and Children (WIC), the Food Stamp Program, and the Food fro Peace >Program. Finally this legislation supports Farmers, Ranchers and Rural >American by funding the Farm Service Agency, Agriculture Research Service >and the Rural Community Advance Program. I supported this bill which passed >on May 23, 2006 with bi-partisan support 378 to 46. > > > >Representative Paul offered an amendment to prohibit the use of funds to >implement or administer a National Animal Identification System. I >supported this amendment after hearing from many in Eastern Washington who >are concerned with how USDA is implementing a rule to impose a National >Animal Identification System. This amendment failed by a recorded vote 34 >to 389. > > > >Thanks again for contacting me on this important issue. I invite you to >visit my website at www.mcmorris.house.gov for additional information. >Please do not hesitate to contact my office if I can be of further >assistance. > > > > > >Best Wishes, > > > >Cathy McMorris > > > >Member of Congress > >___ >This message is from the blackbelly mailing list >Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement ___ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
Re: [blackbelly] Fwd: URGENT-Please help stop NAIS funding at least until it's fixed
At 10:16 PM 5/16/2006, you wrote: >This was sent by Nathan Griffith, editor of Sheep! Magazine. He obviously >feels very strongly about this issue. In all the years I've read Sheep! >Magazine, Nathan has never used his position as editor to try to affect an >issue...until now. I urge you to contact your congressman using the link >provided in his email. Tomorrow afternoon is the deadline for Ron Paul's >amendment to block funding. Here's the reply from my congresscritter: >Dear Julian, > >Thank you for contacting my office regarding Representative Paul's amendment >to H.R. 5384 the Agriculture Appropriations bill. It is an honor to represent >the people of Eastern Washington and I appreciate you taking the time to share >your thoughts with me. > >H.R. 5384 protects our human health and safety by ensuring funding for Avian >Flu, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection >Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and for Bovine Spongiform >Encephalopathy (BSE). It also fulfills commitments to important food and >nutrition programs such as: Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Child >Nutrition Programs, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, >and Children (WIC), the Food Stamp Program, and the Food fro Peace Program. >Finally this legislation supports Farmers, Ranchers and Rural American by >funding the Farm Service Agency, Agriculture Research Service and the Rural >Community Advance Program. I supported this bill which passed on May 23, 2006 >with bi-partisan support 378 to 46. > >Representative Paul offered an amendment to prohibit the use of funds to >implement or administer a National Animal Identification System. I supported >this amendment after hearing from many in Eastern Washington who are concerned >with how USDA is implementing a rule to impose a National Animal >Identification System. This amendment failed by a recorded vote 34 to 389. > >Thanks again for contacting me on this important issue. I invite you to visit >my website at www.mcmorris.house.gov for additional information. Please do not >hesitate to contact my office if I can be of further assistance. > > >Best Wishes, > >Cathy McMorris > >Member of Congress ___ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
[blackbelly] Fwd: URGENT-Please help stop NAIS funding at least until it's fixed
This was sent by Nathan Griffith, editor of Sheep! Magazine. He obviously feels very strongly about this issue. In all the years I've read Sheep! Magazine, Nathan has never used his position as editor to try to affect an issue...until now. I urge you to contact your congressman using the link provided in his email. Tomorrow afternoon is the deadline for Ron Paul's amendment to block funding. >From: "Sheep Magazine Editor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Carol Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: URGENT-Please help stop NAIS funding at least until it's fixed >Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:11:32 -0400 > > >Please read! > I've forwarded the info below to you from my own e-mail folder (not a > mass mailing list) because as a small farmer, I and my friends need your help. > I ask you please to e-mail your congressmen immediately, because time > is very short, and these new rules may wipe out what's left of America's > small farms. > It's easy, and takes less than 5 minutes at > http://www.house.gov/writerep/ (The official website for the U.S. House > of Representatives). > Here's what it's about: > 1. The Nat'l Animal Identification System (NAIS) is a PRELIMINARY > food animal tracking program, but is already being made final in several > states--with USDA backing--carrying fines up to $1000/day if you don't > comply. All without any legislative debate--just bureaucratic mandates. > 2. NAIS exempts only factory farms from new > "guilty-until-proven-innocent" regulations, which end to the right to > buy/sell unless your beasts receive an official mark. > 3. Though taken under duress, data you surrender is considered > "volunteered," so it waives your right to refuse further information they > demand. > 4. The database has no safeguards, nor any penalty at all for abuse > or negligence with your surrendered data. > 5. Official NAIS literature plainly says data taken from you can and > will be used against you for any infraction of any regulation. > 6. You will be guilty until proven innocent if say, an intermediate > shipper/handler quietly medicates your clean animals to insure his safe > transport. > 7. By handing over NAIS data, you automatically waive your > constitutional immunity from warrantless searches. > 8. By handing over NAIS data, you automatically waive your right not > to have to testify against yourself. > 9. The beneficiaries of NAIS (if any) are mainly public officials and > non-farmers/non-ranchers. This unfunded mandate makes you pay all costs. >10. There is no fund for those hit by terrorists or activists who your > hack into the data; NAIS plainly says courts may release all your files > to the public for any reason. >11. There is no "sunset" or reauthorization provision in NAIS, in case > the whole thing is an expensive flop. Your children will just have to > suffer with it. >12. According to NAIS, industry organizations are already lining up to > bully you into compliance, in exchange for police powers and NAIS data lists. > I've been tracking NAIS for the last 2 years at Sheep! Magazine, and > it's not a joke--and you know for sure I've never asked you to act on ANY > cause before. > Please e-mail your Representative immediately. If you think this is > a hoax, check with snopes.com or urbanlegends.com. You won't find NAIS > there as a hoax, because this is real. > It won't cost you a thing to send an e-mail like the following (or > cut-and-paste) to the official U.S. Congress > website: http://www.house.gov/writerep/ The site tells you all you > need to do--it's very easy, and won't take 5 minutes, but may save a > lifetime of trouble for farmers and ranchers. >USE AS A MODEL, OR COPY AND PASTE: >- >Please vote for Congressman Ron Paul's amendment to stop further funding >for the current National Animal Identification System (NAIS) until its >flaws are corrected. The amendment relates to House Agriculture >Appropriations Bill HR 5384. >I farm and NAIS in its current form is a threat, especially to small >family farms. >- >You may sign it or not, since the official congressional sight requires >your address (to make sure you're a U.S. citizen). >Thanks for doing what you can as soon as you can. Please don't put it >off, the amendment comes up tomorrow or Thursday. >Yours, >Nathan Griffith >PS: Please act immediately, while you're still thinking about it. It >won't take 5 minutes and it's free. > >- Original Message - >Subject: Fwd: ACTION NEEDED - STOP THE NAIS > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Tue May 16, 2006 1:38:13 PM US/Central > > Subject: FW: ACTION NEEDED - STOP THE NAIS > > > > I just received this e-mail and thought I'd pass it on to Sheep! Magazine > > even > > though there's not much time to let people know about this. > > > > Long time s
