Texas opts for a voluntary NAIS, totally predictable

80R2228 MSE-F

By: Hughes H.B. No. 637

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT
relating to making participation in an animal identification
program voluntary.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a), (c), (d), and (e) and adding Subsections
(a-1), (j), and (k) to read as follows:
(a) In order to provide for disease control and enhance the
ability to trace disease-infected animals or animals that have been
exposed to disease, the commission may develop and implement a
voluntary animal identification program that is, to the extent
required by federal law, consistent with the United States
Department of Agriculture's National Animal Identification System.

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Did we fight for over a year and a half against any government NAIS just so that Texas, under the leadership of LibertyArk, FARFA, Judith McGeary, Karin Bergener and the rest of the so-called steering committee could sell out to all the people that they suckered in? It was in Sept. 06 that Judith McGeary testified before TAHC that FARFA was for a voluntary program. That set more than a few of us on edge. And then they got their fingers into the Talent/Emerson Bill and that would have opened up a whole new can of worms making NAIS something legitimate for Congress to do. I think it was about that time when I and others resigned our state coordinators posts with LibertyArk because we could see they were not what they seemed to be. Now, I have a term for LibertyArk and FARFA - controlled opposition. They have been for NAIS all along.

There can be no government mandated National Animal Identification System. Period. Anyone who is for an even voluntary system is evil.

If I were a paying member of LibertyArk or FARFA, man, I'd get all over them. They are going to march your state right into the hands of the Farm Bureau and NAIS.