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NoNAIS - News: Tell Congress to Zero Fund USDA’s Animal ID

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:41:33 -0600

Now is the time to contact your Congressional critters and ask them to zero fund the USDA’s latest Naistyness.

NoNAIS - News: Farmers Say NAIS/ADT

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:59:34 -0600

The battle continues:

A coalition led by farmers and ranchers is using a last-minute strategy to stop USDA’s new Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program. The groups involved are using economic grounds - especially the added costs that animal identification will impose on rural America.

In a 9-page letter to the Executive Office of Management and Budget, a unit of the White House, the sixteen organizations in the coalition say animal traceability could cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion a year.
-FoodSafetyNews
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NoNAIS - News: Bulletin Board 201206

Thu, 31 May 2012 22:01:01 -0600

Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

NoNAIS - News: NoNAISWA Hacked

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:21:02 -0600

I just got a note that NoNAISWA got wiped out by hackers. They’re working on rebuilding the site. If anyone has content please help.

NoNAIS - News: Virginia Seeks to Ban Pig Ownership

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:14:11 -0600

This memo just in:

[DGIF Virginia] “Want[s] to discourage trafficking in pigs to reduce incentive to liberate pig”
-DGIF Virginia Document

Whoa!

Virginia’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is seeking to ban ‘trafficking’ and thus ownership of pigs. Now this isn’t aimed at the HUGE mega monster factory farms. This will be aimed at banning small farms and individuals from owning, breeding, selling, buying and raising pigs.

NoNAIS - News: DNR Lies

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:04:57 -0600

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is attacking small farmers. Now they’re lying claiming they’re not doing what they are doing. This is patently false. Watch out how they use tricky wording… Among other things they claim that the ‘feral pigs’ are a different species than domesticated pigs.

Modern definition of species is if they can breed together and produce viable offspring then they are the same species. What you’re talking about is different breeds, not different species.

See:

“In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.”
Wiki
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NoNAIS - News: DNR Lies

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:04:57 -0600

Modern definition of species is if they can breed together and produce viable offspring then they are the same species. What you’re talking about is different breeds, not different species.

See:

“In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.”
Wiki
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NoNAIS - News: Label GMOs

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:17:26 -0600

Big Ag liked to hype in Europe how their Genetically Modified Orgasms(sic) were better. Yet they threaten to sue people in the USA for labeling products as containing GMOs. We’ve fought this battle before in Vermont, and won, with the rBST which Monstersanto quietly divested itself of once the Big Corps like Walmart saw the writing on the wall and refused to carry any more due to consumer uproar.

There is a new push to mandate the labeling of GMO products. Monstersanto and their ilk are fighting against such labeling. You can make a difference by letting the government, your representatives, state and local know how you fee.

NoNAIS - News: Rabid Vegans and Vegetarians

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:54:03 -0600

Not all people as as rude but it seems I observe a remarkably high percentage of vegetarians and vegans who become evangelical about their dietary choice treating it like religion. Please go see the example here and since you’re a good omnivore, speak up. Keep it very rational, direct and precise. But make a presence because right now the radical, evangelical dietary left wing is running rampant. While you’re at it, invite your normal diet friends to help out too. If we don’t speak up this tiny minority of carrot crunchers are going to legislate what you can eat.

NoNAIS - News: New Rulemaking See NAISSucks

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:05:17 -0600

From snezzy in comments:

Darrol over at NAISstinks.org is reporting that the new USDA NAIS rule was presented to the OBAMA for sign off about a month ago. Does anyone know the status?

(April 27th, 2012) USDA submitted it Animal Disease Traceability Rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget for final review.

That just makes me SICK!

NoNAIS - News: Finals Week - Last Chance to Help Kickstart the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm

Wed, 09 May 2012 07:29:46 -0600

We are now in our last week of our Kickstarting the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm. We made our initial goal of $25,000 for the butcher shop equipment thanks to all of you!

We made our second goal of an additional $5,000 for pouring the abattoir tower. Thank you, again!!

Some people have asked how high can we go? The sky’s the limit. There are more goals ahead such as pouring the floors of the abattoir, the roof of the abattoir, etc. Help spread the word to as many people as possible in this last week so as to raise additional funds for the higher levels where all backers can get additional rewards added on to rewards packages such as more sausage, hot dogs, bacon and other Goodies.

NoNAIS - News: Bulletin Board 201205

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:01:01 -0600

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

NoNAIS - News: Kickstarted to 93%!

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:32:26 -0600

This week we’ve gotten a bunch of publicity which has driven our Kickstarting the Butcher Shop project to over 93% funded. Check out the new Cartoon Info-Graphic by our son and daughter Ben & Hope.

If you haven’t been to visit it yet, go to http://smf.me where you can see a video of our farm, photos and description of our project. You can get great rewards including our pastured pork, bacon, hot dogs, sausage, T-shirts, ivory tusks and more.

NoNAIS - News: Government Backs Nose Out From Under Family’s Skirts

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:28:13 -0600

Score one for the family farm:

Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.

Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason for withdrawing the rule.
-DailyCaller.com
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NoNAIS - News: Site Problem - Comments

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:38:37 -0600

Apparently there has been a little glitch recently and all comments were getting marked as spam. Fortunately someone emailed me and I found the problem. Those comments are now unspammed and hopefully the problem is fixed. Sorry about that!

NoNAIS - News: WI: Government Generousity

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:28:46 -0600

Perhaps you’ve heard about this sort of thing. The government, for your own good, is going to require you to buy certain things. No, I’m not talking about the Health Care Mandate. In Wisconsin they have a NAIS Mandate. Mandatory premiss registration, animal ID, etc. But, they are so generous. They’ll allow you to write off 25% of the forced costs from your tax burden.

Gee… So it still is going to cost you 75%. Since it is a government mandate it will be over priced because the vendors have a lock on the market. You know how these things go. Using some rough numbers, what should have cost $10 per animal is going to cost $20 but you’ll be able to deduct $5 making it so you’re only paying 50% more than you would have not spent had you been willing to spend it if it wasn’t a mandate. Confused?

NoNAIS - News: Kickstarting the Butcher Shop

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:45:50 -0600

Whit Carter has just pushed us up over the $10,000 funding level at our Kickstart the Butcher Shop project! That means we’re 40% funded at the one week mark! Congrats to Whit who unknowingly won a T-shirt! What other prize levels do I have in mind you might ask… Special numbers, round numbers, spiky numbers, prime numbers… Ah, the possibilities!

NoNAIS - News: Bulletin Board 201204

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:01:01 -0600

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

NoNAIS - News: Prepping to Kickstarting the Butchershop

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:38:51 -0600

Do you know what Kickstarter is? Check out the post on my farm blog about:

Kickstarter.com - The Butcher Shop Project

Here’s the direct link and here’s a short link to pass around:

http://smf.me/k

We are doing a Kickstarter project to help raise money as we go into the final stretch of construction for our family’s on-farm butcher shop. This will let us start cutting meat here at our farm. I appreciate any and all backing you can do and just as importantly spreading the word about our project. The more people that know the better!

NoNAIS - News: MI DNR ISO Killing Small Farmers

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:34:51 -0600

Government nonsense is blooming in Michigan:

Michigan DNR Going Hog Wild
By Pete Kennedy, Esq. | March 15, 2012

In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to expand its jurisdiction beyond hunting and fishing to farming operations. On April 1, 2012 an Invasive Species Order (ISO) that DNR issued in December 2010 prohibiting the possession of a number of different types breeds of swine will go into effect.

The order allows DNR to seize and destroy heritage breeds of pigs that farmers are raising; and DNR will not compensate farmers whose pigs are destroyed. In the logic of the department, “Indemnification in [Michigan] statute is for livestock and invasive species are not livestock, and are therefore, not eligible for indemnification.”
-Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
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