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Rep. Quinn      Rep. Jetton      Charley Kruse

Why would Missouri Rep. John Quinn remove language from Senate Bill 156 that would protect Missouri farmers from the National Animal Identification System Act, a big brother federal policy that would require Missouri farmers to place RFID micro-chips in their livestock? Especially when it had already overwhelmingly passed in the Missouri Senate and the Missouri House of Representatives?

"We desperatly need help in the Legislature to see that SB 156 gets voted out of conference committee with the Animal ID Portion intact.   

Rep. John Quinn in a last minute attempt to stop our No NAIS Animal ID Bill from becoming legislation has stripped that portion from the Bill that presently is in conferance.   

It has passed the Senate floor vote by 29-2 and the House of Representatives with a  vote of 137-10.  He has no justifiable reason to take the Animal ID Portion of SB156  away from the people. 

Please call House Speaker Rod Jetton at 573-751-5912 and ask him to have the Animal ID Issue put back in SB156 and addressed at the Conference Committee Hearing that is scheduled for 5 pm Monday May 14th, in the Senate Committee Room 1 on the Senate side on the first floor of the Capitol Building.   Anyone with an interest in this issue, should also make every attempt to be present in that hearing to show our strength. It will be an executive hearing......no testifing .......but at least if we fill that room, our concerns will be well noted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Strength is in numbers.  

The General Assembly adjourns. in just one week, on May 18th.  We are so close to stopping NAIS in Missouri, and if we are going to win this battle, we have 5 days to get it finalized.    Phone calls to the 10 members on the conference committee would also be beneficial.  The 10 members include:

Sen. Purgason......573-751-1882    Sen.  Mayer  573-751-3859

Sen.Barnitz 573-751-2108    Sen. Shoemeyer  573-751-7852

Sen. Engler  573-751-3455     Rep.  Dethrow   573-751-1066

Rep.Witte  573-751-9614    Rep. McClanahan  573-751-4042

Rep. Quinn  573-751-2917 Rep. Hobbs  573-751-9458

For additional information you may contact Ron & Lynn Conway at

573-743-6720   or rcc@misn.com "

According to an article found on the Missouri Libertarian Party website (posted on May 4th, 2007) states that the National Animal Identification System would require Missouri Farmers to:

"I am writing this as an open letter to all the members of the Missouri House of Representatives and all other State and Federal legislatures across the country. The National Animal Identification System currently being implemented and enforced will be devastating to small farmers and ranchers. Please read the following information carefully as you consider legislation that will stop NAIS that will impact not just cattle, but ALL livestock and poultry from one animal to many. If you raise one chicken, you must have a premise number! Currently in Missouri there are radio ads stating that you must have a premise number for 4-H members and FFA members that have livestock.

While being touted as ''Voluntary at the Federal Level'' by the USDA, they have required each state to comply with the 2005 NAIS draft plan. In Missouri, see pages 6 and 11 of the Cooperative working agreement signed by Fred Ferrell [former Missouri Secretary of Agriculture]. The '05 draft plan requires all property owners with livestock to get a premise ID with the Federal Government. Additionally, it requires each animal be individually be identified with a computer chip by January of 2008, and then in January of 2009, require 14 movements to be reported within 24 hours such as the following according to page 13 of the Technical Supplement to the '05 draft plan.

Examples of 24 hour reporting that Farmers must do under NAIS documents by Jan 2009;

• RFID chip put on/in animal
• Animal moved to your premise [farm]
• Animal moved to another farm
• Tag is lost
• Tag is replaced
• Animal is sighted without a tag
• Slaughtered
• Animal died
• Animal missing

All 14 movement events are required to be reported in 24 hours so that USDA can find any animal in the US in 48 hours. As an elected representative of the people of the United States, have you been aware of this? Imagine the cost and labor involved for producers to comply. If they don't, they face fines, or worse! The USDA is a bigger threat to small producers than anyone I know of!"

But wait! Not surprisingly the same article on the Missouri Libertarian website reveals that Quinn has had a co-spirator all along, Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton!...

"In Missouri, legislation to stop NAIS has been highjacked by Legislators loyal to Farm Bureau. Farm Bureau helped get many of these House Members elected. As we tried to stop NAIS with legislation introduced by Senator Chuck Perguson who, after explaining this complex issue to his fellow Senators, got his Bill 428 passed 29 for and only 2 opposed! When this legislation got to the Missouri House, Ag committee chair Rep. John Quinn completely gutted it and turned it into legislation that would establish NAIS in Missouri! This legislation is HCS for Senate Bill 428 and will be going nowhere, killed in committee.

Speaker of the Missouri House Rod Jetton, who is a loyal Farm Bureau supporter, apparently has refused to help in any way after repeated attempts to explain to him the issues involved. Ag Chair John Quinn and Speaker Jetton could be solely responsible for killing this very important legislation. Hopefully, Speaker Jetton and Rep. Quinn will reconsider NAIS and help to stop it. We are talking about the government controlling the food supply forcing everyone, great or small, to comply with unbelievable regulations, and subject themselves to searches and seizures at the whim of unelected regulators that will be forcing compliance to this program. Do we not even have the right in America to raise our own food anymore without government permission or intervention? Why would we ever allow this as a free people?

It is my understanding that Missouri under Secretary Matt Boatright told the house members from the floor that without NAIS Missouri will become unable to sell or move livestock out of Missouri! He just confirms what I have been saying! He knows where this program is headed! While being touted as ''Voluntary'', it will shortly be ''MANDATORY'' in compliance with the agreement that his office has signed with USDA! Have you as a legislator seen this agreement? Ask them for it! Each State must address this issue and make sure that Farmers and livestock owners do not have to ''mark'', their animals to be able to buy or sell. Our previous disease programs have been most effective and are disease specific and they do not contain the devastating aspects of NAIS."

Yet this same article reveals a third conspirator who is selling out Missourians , Missouri Farm Bureau president, Charley Kruse...

"After many meetings across several states on this issue and meeting literally thousands of farmers and ranchers, I can tell you that they oppose NAIS nearly 100% after hearing about the facts right from the USDA documents. After months of trying to get Missouri Farm Bureau to print the facts about NAIS they have not only refused, but continue to print propaganda and misinformation to their members. Ask Farm Bureau to show you in print where they have told their members about the 14 reporting events or nearly all of the points I have made in this letter. They can't, because they haven't. I can tell you that many Farm Bureau members have dropped their insurance and membership after hearing the truth about what FB leadership has been doing. In Missouri, FB President Charles Kruse signed a letter to UDSA representing MFB that NAIS should ultimately be MANDATORY! MFB policy has never said that! Ask Charles for a copy!"

It would be interesting to see how much influence that the corporate ag giants had on these three "sell-outs". Please send any additional info on this subject to me at the following email address: mobushwhacker@yahoo.com

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