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Neil Hammerschmidt - Animal Disease Traceability Update by USDA
Submitted by Truffle Media N... on May 4, 2011 - 2:10pm.
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Animal Disease Traceability Update by USDA - Neil Hammerschmidt, Program Manager, Animal Disease Traceability, USDA/APHIS/VS, from the 2011 Annual Conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, April 11 - 14, San Antonio, TX USA.
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The USDA all ready heard our thoughts with a resonding NO. As always the government is NOT listening but instead will introduce foreign animal disease into the USA that we have faught to keep out. Welcome to the take over of the United Nations. So there is my thought that no one listening to.
The numerous issues that arose with equines the first time around with NAIS have been ignored. The economic impact on those who live near state lines will be profound if they are required to obtain an ICVI just to cross state lines for a trail ride! The economic impact on my small town will be profound because we rely on groups/clubs coming in to ride our 131 mile trail system for the weekend. This will reduce the income for those local landowners with campgrounds, bed and breakfasts or who rent horse stalls near the trail system, our general store, the gas station, those who sell hay and feed, the local tack shop, restaurant owners and those who cater dinners for these groups - just to mention a few!
So, in response to NO "voluntary" NAIS, USDA has responded with a mandatory ADTP. Way to go, boys. Your comprehension of what was said to you at the Listening Sessions is abysmal. We don't want to open our borders up to Brazilian cattle and God knows what else you intend to bring in. Managed risk is another way of saying "sooner or later".
I also want to know how you can justify an equestrian going for a trail ride in a neighboring state as being a form of commerce. Even Wickard v Filburn doesn't cover that scenario. BTW, how will you enforce that? Will the state police be stationed on every state line to pull over horse trailers to "check our papers"? Will a veterinarian be there with them to explain what "cremello", or "scar on the pastern" means on the description? Will you accept a digital photo of a brown horse with no markings as an acceptable ID, or is this how you intend to say RFID chips are necessary, because to you, all brown horses look alike? Are people who show in neighboring states expected to pay for a new ICVI every month, or will you be offering a "passport" that can only be issued with a microchip, and says nothing about the horse's actual health months after it was issued? Are mandatory RFID chips one of the enhancements you plan on achieving eventually?
You may fool a lot of people with this incremental, seems harmless enough, approach, but you haven't fooled all of us. The only thing that has changed from NAIS, is your new approach to achieve the same goal you've had all along - complying with the UN and WTO in spite of all the Constitutional violations. But, then, why should USDA be any different from the rest of the federal government? You should all be fired.
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