To all of my Elected Representatives,

Please don’t take the lack of personal greeting as any kind of slight. I simply want you to know that I am sending the same letter to every single official beginning at the local level and going all the way up to Federal level.

The point of this correspondence is to inform you of my extreme objection to the proposed National Animal Identification Plan being touted by the USDA at this present time. This plan is also referred to as the NFAIP, and the NAIS. They are all one in the same.

The proposed plan calls for every single animal in the US to be microchipped and entered into a central database to track the movement of animals from the farm of origin and every point in between. If you take a lamb to the vet it will be scanned into the system or you won’t be able to have it vetted; if you desire to take another lamb to the butcher it will be scanned into the system or you won’t be able to have it butchered. The projected estimate for implementation of this plan is 33 billion dollars. Let that sink in for a second. $33,000,000,000.00 to simply implement the plan. That doesn’t include the costs to maintain it once it’s begun. That is $115.78 for every single man, woman and child in the US. It does not include the costs for farmers to microchip their animals either, so those who raise the food get to pay even more for this plan.

This plan cannot and will not do anything to make our food supply safer at all. It’s purportedly necessary to protect us from potential bio-terrorism. How? It’s impossible to protect anything through registration. The only thing that can be done is to trace it’s movements from point A to B to C, on and on ad infintum, and destroy the smallholder’s ability to provide for themselves. This plan will create a veritable monopoly by corporate agriculture and thereby seriously endanger our national economy and our food supply. It’s difficult enough to try to make a living wage in agriculture now, this plan will make that nearly impossible.

I request that you reply to me with your stand on this issue and that you remember your oath to protect and defend the Constitution of these united States of America against enemies foreign or domestic. In my humble opinion this is the most destructive proposal against personal liberty that I have yet to encounter.

I await your reply.

Sincerely,