Just Say NO to NAIS

The USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System, or NAIS -- a response to recent contaminations of food by pathogens which would require farmers to electronically ID every animal they raise -- is a disastrous, dumb idea that financially punishes small-scale farmers, especially those who sell their livestock locally. They are not the meat producers whose animals wind up in industrial vats of burger containing the meat of literally hundreds of animals before it winds up in patties at your local fast-food joint or mega-mart meat freezer.

I am passionate about opposing this. If you are too -- if you want to protect small family farms, if you want continued access to locally raised, small-scale-farmed meat and poultry -- please contact all your legislators and the USDA and inform them you do not want NAIS. Big Ag, unsurprisingly, is pushing it; push back. Please go to NoNAIS.org to learn more, and please share this information with all your foodie friends.