This just in from Downsize DC.org NAIS does nothing for food safety and wreaks havoc for small producers. Downsize calls it another form of corporate welfare designed to get the little guy out of the way. Here’s the latest: D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t [...]
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NAIS, the mandatory animal identification system, could put small operators under. It is being done in the name of food safety and yet imported meat, with no such “safeguards” is ramping up from South America. Go figure. See this important site for a full explanation.
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“At the Capitol, legislative drafter Kate Meyer, Republican Sen. Al White of Craig (formerly of Winter Park) and Republican Rep. Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulphur Springs also helped in cracking the state’s cistern code.”
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The burdensome requirements the bill imposes on small farms and the intrusive federal control it creates over small farm operations threaten the future viability of sustainable agriculture and the local food movement. HR 875 has been assigned to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture. It needs to be stopped. Anyone who values freedom of food choice and the rights and independence of small farmers should contact their elected representatives and the members of the two committees to ask that they oppose HR 875. Updates on the status of this bill will be provided on this site.
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