From Columbian Missourian- June 9 2009 -of the 55 people who spoke, how many supported NAIS? One.

and from ConnectMidMissouri

Missouri Rural Crisis Center Spokeswoman Rhonda Perry said, “We have a lot of problems in the food system right now.  Most of the issues that we are dealing with are really happening at the packing plants, the processing plants, and to some extent, the industrial livestock production facilities.”

From the Hartford *Listening* Tour

Most farmers already keep track of their animals either by number, like Greenback, or by sight, like Ryan Matson, who raises about 40 hormone-free, antiobiotic-free, grass-fed Black Angus cows in Berlin.

And when his animals go to market, the USDA tags and tracks them: "If I bring [a cow] to a live animal market, it gets a federal USDA tag on it. If there's an issue, it can already be brought back to me, so I don't understand this."

NAIS, he says, will be cumbersome and too expensive for small operations like his.

"Everyone put this big emphasis on healthy, local products, but these regulations will put people out of business. This could put us out of business," he says. "If you live in Berlin and you want to buy a steak from a Berlin cow, you'd be out of luck." ¦

Follow the money. Who benefits from a huge master plan of tracking all the animals and poultry via an instrusive database and RFID chips?Hmmm?

Also from Loveland Colorado

"We're all for food safety, let's make that perfectly clear," said Lee Swenson of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, which represents smaller farms and ranches. But national ID "is a new bureaucracy with a significant cost, which has nothing at all to do with disease prevention or food safety."

Eaton hog farmer John Long said mandating computer-tracked ID numbers for every farm animal in America is unconstitutional, a "taking" of private-property rights, and demands faith in a government that hasn't earned it.

"This is the same government that, after Katrina, couldn't get a semi-load of water from Salt Lake to New Orleans in six weeks," Long said. "And they think they're going to trace disease back in 24 hours? I don't believe it."

Notice also in this article how Tom Vilsack is pushing mandatory NAIS.

and from NAISSTINKS.COM- The Deterioration of Earned Respect