The production and control of food is big business---and big business means politics. The focus of this tribe is to provide alerts about and to discuss politics that affect agriculture, whether that's Big Ag like Cargill, ADM or Monsanto or local politicos making designs upon your ability to husband small livestock in your backyard or sell your extra produce at the end of your driveway.

Knowledge is power, people.



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* "USDA's proposed program could be compared to a finely crafted blueprint for a concrete blimp." ---LivestockWeek
* "NAIS is like driving thumb tacks with a 100 lb sledge hammer." ---WJ
* "It is difficult to imagine any acceptable basis for the (USDA) to subject the owner of a chicken to more intrusive surveillance than the owner of a gun." ---Mary Zanoni
* NAIS is "No Chicken Left Behind" ---government mandates with little funding. ---S. Maricle


If you don't know about the National Animal Identification System and how it can and will affect farmers and consumers (do you eat food? GET INVOLVED!), then jump right in here and start asking questions. Ideas for stopping this debacle will probably have to be done on a state-by-state basis...but if any of us figure out something that works in one state, maybe it'll work in another!

http://tribes.tribe.net/notothenais