NAIS Listening Sessions
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OLD WORLD SHORTIE
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Boo this man, enforce the laws that we have today and inspect the livestock being imported. It seems like every time they bring the up its for a different reason Disease protection, bioterrorism, global market control. Fact is someone is going to make some money off of this.
knabe
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yeah this man. below is quotes to link in video.
I notice that all but four of the people were OPPOSED to mandatory NAIS.
AND The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund calling on the USDA to find a *true* solution
Acting Fund President Pete Kennedy, noting the overwhelming opposition voiced by consumers and farmers in the seven hearings to date, urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to truly listen to the voices already raised.
“More than 90 percent of the people who spoke at the listening sessions so far have spoken out vigorously against NAIS,” he said. At Wednesday’s hearing in Stoors, Connecticut, 15 of 18 speakers were against NAIS including representatives from Farm Aid and Food and Water Watch, Kennedy noted. And at yesterday’s hearing in Loveland, Colorado, 32 people spoke against NAIS, while only five supported it.
“If Secretary Vilsack is listening, we think he’s heard enough. The message is unmistakable: NAIS is not the animal health or food safety solution this country needs.”
Instead Kennedy urged Secretary Vilsack and the USDA to re-focus the upcoming hearings on several alternatives to NAIS including:
- Decentralizing the livestock industry and encouraging local, diversified farms, which would increase animal health, food security, and food safety;
- Increasing inspections of imported animals and agricultural products and barring the entry of animals from countries with known disease problems; and
- Improving enforcement of existing laws and inspections of large slaughterhouses and food processing facilities, including unannounced spot inspections.
“We share the USDA’s and the country’s concern for animal health and food safety,” said Fund board member Taaron Meikle, “but NAIS is not the answer. It may be the answer for beef exporters who wish to improve their overseas sales, but it is not the answer to animal health or food safety in our country
I notice that all but four of the people were OPPOSED to mandatory NAIS.
AND The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund calling on the USDA to find a *true* solution
Acting Fund President Pete Kennedy, noting the overwhelming opposition voiced by consumers and farmers in the seven hearings to date, urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to truly listen to the voices already raised.
“More than 90 percent of the people who spoke at the listening sessions so far have spoken out vigorously against NAIS,” he said. At Wednesday’s hearing in Stoors, Connecticut, 15 of 18 speakers were against NAIS including representatives from Farm Aid and Food and Water Watch, Kennedy noted. And at yesterday’s hearing in Loveland, Colorado, 32 people spoke against NAIS, while only five supported it.
“If Secretary Vilsack is listening, we think he’s heard enough. The message is unmistakable: NAIS is not the animal health or food safety solution this country needs.”
Instead Kennedy urged Secretary Vilsack and the USDA to re-focus the upcoming hearings on several alternatives to NAIS including:
- Decentralizing the livestock industry and encouraging local, diversified farms, which would increase animal health, food security, and food safety;
- Increasing inspections of imported animals and agricultural products and barring the entry of animals from countries with known disease problems; and
- Improving enforcement of existing laws and inspections of large slaughterhouses and food processing facilities, including unannounced spot inspections.
“We share the USDA’s and the country’s concern for animal health and food safety,” said Fund board member Taaron Meikle, “but NAIS is not the answer. It may be the answer for beef exporters who wish to improve their overseas sales, but it is not the answer to animal health or food safety in our country
