Press Coverage

On this page:

• Fact Sheets

• Recent Coverage

• Press Releases

• Potential Interviewees

• News Archives (articles about NAIS)

 

Fact Sheets

• Summary statement about NAIS
• Alternatives to NAIS: Why the NAIS is not needed for animal health, food safety, or the market

 

Recent Coverage

• Report to producers on the traceability for Livestock Moving Interstate Rule, The Prairie Star, January 31, 2013
• Weighing in on the animal ID rule, La Junta Tribune, January 4, 2013
• After Years of Livestock Industry Wrangling USDA Issues Final “Animal ID Rule”, Food Consumer, December 20, 2012
• Animal disease traceability, Backwoods Home Magazine, September/October 2012
• Organizations respond to USDA’s proposed Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program rule, Dairy Business, August 9, 2011

 

 

Press Releases

• Farming and Consumer Organizations Urge Wisconsin Court to Strike Down Mandatory Premises Registration in Face of Religious Objections (Dec. 2, 2009)
• Family Farmers, Ranchers and Local Food Advocates Criticize Efforts to Tie School Lunch Program to Animal ID (June 25, 2008)
• Rural Texas Invades the Capital (Feb. 12, 2007)
• National Animal ID Marches On (Dec. 6, 2006)
• Big Brother Wants to Know If You Own Animals (May 15, 2006)
• The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance Is Founded (April 9, 2006)

 

News Archives

• Texas rancher wants market-drive animal ID system, Brownfield Ag News for America, May 22, 2009
• Farmers resist USDA ID system, The Sentinel, May 22, 2009
• Central Texas farmers voice concerns on USDA program, YNN Austin, May 20, 2009
• Critics Turn Out for USDA Hearing, KUT Austin, May 20, 2009
• “Tag, We’re It,” The New York Times, March 20, 2009
• “Farmers fear a barnyard Big Brother,” Los Angeles Times (front page article), January 14, 2008
• “USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program,” The Nation, December 31, 2007
• Austin American-Statesman: excellent article – interview with Chairman Miller about NAIS (expired link)
• “Farmers Take On Tollroads, Tags,” Dallas Morning News, 2007
• “Protestors Rally Over Threats to Farmland,” Palestine Herald, March 3, 2007
• Corporate control of our food supply: The real impacts of the National Animal Identification System, Countryside & Small Stock Journal, January/February 2007

 

Other Press Coverage of “Don’t Tag Texas” Rally

• Brenham Banner Press, February 13, 2007 (expired link)
• USDA provides Opt-Out, February 8, 2007
• “Public speaks out on animal ID plan at Aug. 31 meeting,” Bastrop Advertiser, September 7, 2006.
• Houston Radio KPFT 90.1 FM hosts a call-in show covering the National Animal ID System. Guest are Judith McGeary (Director & Founder of the Farmers and Ranchers Freedom Alliance, FARFA) and Brad Stufflebeam (Pres. of the Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Assoc., TOFGA). Listen to the audio archive here (MP3 file, player required).
• FARFA director, board members quoted in Congressman Duncan (TN) speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives: www.moreliberty.org/more_liberty/2006/05/speech_against_.html (expired link)

May 8, 2006:
Harrison County and the City of Marshall (TX) adopt resolutions opposing NAIS
(also news story in the Marshal News-Messenger on the resolutions)

April 6, 2006:
USDA Releases National Animal Identification System Implementation Plan

April 4, 2006:
TAHC announces the mandatory premises registration regulations are on hold until 2007