Comments on: Wendell Berry Picks Jail Over NAIS

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:25:21 +0000

Civil disobidience is a very light term to describe this situation. Fear your goverment, and you will be rewarded. Obey your goverment and you will be rewarded. Hate your goverment and won’t last long enough to talk about it.

By: esbee

esbee — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:48:35 +0000

Our govt is certainly putting more effort into tracking those who own livestock than known jihadists usch as Hasan, who even though it was known he was a loose cannon, did nothing. You can see the results, 13 dead, many wounded. it will not change but only get worse for us.. Wisconsin , where NAIS is mandatory, has arrested some
amish and members of R-calf, brought them to court for resisting NAIS. (while drug dealers in those areas continue to run free!) This is the future of our country. Tell the Muslim radicals to wait a while. they will not have to do any more jihadding, the country they hate will do it for them.

By: mariaminno

mariaminno — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:45:13 +0000

Wendell Berry speaks about NAIS: He’d rather go to jail! http://bit.ly/14Zuql

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By: fitness_expert

fitness_expert — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:05:04 +0000

http://bit.ly/luHgj

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By: MAIN_WPVM

MAIN_WPVM — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:26:03 +0000

Wendell Berry picks jail over livestock tagging http://tinyurl.com/ndwt54

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By: elenawilkins

elenawilkins — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:36:49 +0000

One wise person once said: “I love my country, but fear my government”: @foodrenegade Jail Over NAIS http://tinyurl.com/ndwt54

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By: howlingduckranch

howlingduckranch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:16:28 +0000

Good for you Wendell! Sadly, the time for civil disobedience is upon us yet there are far too few aware of the need for it.

Incidentally, there is a lot of talk of our liberties, consumer rights and so on with the raw milk debate, yet I have not read any arguments about our loss of culture. The family dinner table is (was) the locus of culture since the dawn of humanity… the corporate agricultural production and distribution system backed by government legislation is taking this integral piece of our culture out of our homes and away from us. The famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss said that food is equivalent in order of magnitude to each culture as is its language. It is downright criminal what is being done to our food in general, and thus our culture overall. It should not only be our right to choose to drink raw milk but also looked upon as our right to maintain our cultural heritage. I would like to see a lawyer take up this argument; it is a strong one and should be quite easily defended. If Sikhs can win the right to carry their traditional knives in Canada with the cultural argument, then why should any European, African, Indian, (or anyone with a cultural background whose food incorporated dairy animals like goats, cows, sheep, oxen, and so on) not also be able to defend their cultural rights to drinking/having access to/selling raw milk and their products? Why are we North Americans giving up our traditions and cultures so easily?

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By: Alex Scrivener

Alex Scrivener — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:39:36 +0000

"NAIS promises to require every single livestock animal in America to be identified and tagged — no matter the size of the operation. So, you’ve got a few backyard chickens? Some milking goats? A small free-range pig farm? Say hello to expensive tagging & government paperwork!"

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By: amicus curiae

amicus curiae — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:10:24 +0000

It is a matter of herd hygiene too, if Cattle with Mad Cow and Bovine Johnes were tested for! and removed for eg it would help a lot. Banning RbGH everywhere also would help.(USDA and FDA banned the TESTING! saying it would “disadvantage” the larger producers who Do Not test???)
Pature feed is what cows evolved to do, grains like corn and soy (GM all too often+cottonseed meal also GM) are killing the cows and taking valuable food cropland..
Aussie version of Nais was Mandatory, against strong opposition, it was appr’d anyway, and all it has done is cost more. Our herds are clean and tested often to keep it so.
Rustling still occurs, it means nothing to cut and replace a tag, easier than re branding., doesnt mean diddly, but raises revenue for Govt and Manufacturers of the chips!
Same Bulls**t excuses used for small animal chips, in reality, waste of money, and risks tumours in your cat /dog /horse.

By: Walter Jeffries

Walter Jeffries — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:48:49 +0000

This is really good to hear. A lot of farmers have said they will not participate in NAIS, that they will resist. Some farmers are already doing so in states like Wisconsin that have implemented mandatory NAIS already. I hope that consumers will join farmers in resisting. Buy a chicken. Flaunt it. Do not bow to the system. Everyone can participate in this bit of civil disobedience.

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/
http://NoNAIS.org