Freedom 21, National Animal Identification System, Food Safety bills
Good News, More Good News, & Bad News
It is certainly good news is that the USDA has finally given up trying to force its National Animal Identification System down the throats of American farmers and ranchers.
It is more good news that the Emanuel Miller case was thrown out of court.
Emanuel Miller is the Amish farmer in Wisconsin who was prosecuted for failure to comply with the state law that required him to register his premises as the first step toward compliance with Wisconsin’s version of the NAIS. Judge Jon M. Counsell concluded that “The premises registration number does nothing to further or assist in the disease tracking aspects of registration.”
When asked how the premises registration number was more efficient than a street address, the state’s witness could not answer. The witness also said that the premises identification number was meaningless.
All this is good news, but there’s more to the story.
Two horrible “Food Safety” bills are moving through Congress: H.R.2749 and S510.
These bills have already undergone considerable changes in various committees, but still reek of massive government control over all phases of food production, processing, and marketing. These bills are fraught with new “hazard analysis” requirements, registration and reporting procedures, and multiple ways for government to intrude and ultimately control the food production process.
One provision, if enacted, would authorize federal bureaucrats to visit and inspect “any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation; to review food safety records as required to be kept for purposes of food tracebacks and other purposes; and to set good practices standards, among several other specified activities.
Whatever comes out of these food safety bills is likely to be as bad, or worse, than NAIS. Please contact your representatives while they are at home during the Easter recess and tell them to leave farms and ranches alone.
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