I was looking at the NoNAIS site this morning and saw an article in which the writer indicates that the big AG producers are pushing NAIS (National Animal Identification System) in order to get approval for cloned meat and milk. But they would need to have a way to tell, through tracking, which animals were cloned and which were not; hence the push for NAIS from that angle.

Very cleverly, the biotech companies behind the new initiative—Trans Ova Genetics and ViaGen—have positioned it as “a voluntary effort” that will enable consumers to identify, and thereby avoid, cloned products. But consider this language in The Wall Street Journal article, which talks about “a tracking program” that “will have cloning companies give each cloned animal a quarter-size radio-frequency identification tag. The tag number would be entered into a registry accessible by those in the supply chain…”

The Washington Post article uses similar language: “The system calls for all cloned farm animals to be registered in a central tracking system and requires farmers who raise them to sign affidavits promising to keep them out of the food supply or to segregate their meat and milk so that other foods can be reliably labeled as ‘clone-free.’" (Interestingly, neither of the companies, Trans Ova or ViaGen, has an announcement about the program posted on its web site.)

Lets remember. NAIS is about CONTROL, not disease.