Talk:National Animal Identification System

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Outdated information as of Nov 22, 2006 when USDA proposed updated policy guidance.

Dixxie 22:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)dixxie

[edit] Pro-NAIS Bias

This article is blatently POV. Amazingly the anti-NAIS position is the briefest section of them all and labled concerns. This misrepresents the huge grass roots movement against it, the millions of farmers and traditionalists who are outraged by this and the substanitive debate going on and mostly ignored by both the government and the media. Anti-NAIS groups and indivduals are asking very important questions that are being neglected. They are pointing out potential problems with the system that are not being addressed.

As it stands this article is biased and makes unverifyable truth claims by quoteing only one side of the debate. This is proved by the fact that nearly every other sentence is provided with a citation from the USDA website. It is a fact that the USDA claims these benifits about their proposed NAIS and it is a fact that the program is taking shape much the same way they are describing it, but it is not verified that NAIS will make our nations foods safer. This is an unverified POV. To make this article conform to NPOV it needs to acuratly protray both sides of the debate.

--Rclose 19:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I wrote the initial version at the beginning of year, not especially well I would expect, but I wrote it to get something out there and let people see, quoting from their own website, just how unreasonable NAIS is... Maybe I haven't paid close enough attention to all the edits since then; I've popped in occasionally and gone through the edit history, but I must have missed where the current article claimes that NAIS will make the food supply safer...

BTW, the citations from the USDA are important. They are the government organization implementing this program, and I wanted to ensure that people reading this would see that the facts on how the program will be run are taken directly from them, not from somewhere they might dismiss as a "crank" website.

Also, I'll add I was glad to see your addition on depopulation - very true and it wasn't something I thought to mention. I need to see if I can pull a USDA document that comes out and actually says that.

SA horses 20:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Animals

Are animals such as cats, dogs and hamsters required to be tagged and identified? That sounds like it would be going way over the limit...Although the whole program itself is already going over the limit. Scorpionman 03:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)