NAIS is bad for our pets and livestock! Microchip implants can cause cancer and a host of other health problems in our stock!

I love buying healthy grass fed beef from my local farm. DO NOT MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT OR EXPENSIVE FOR ME TO OBTAIN WITH THIS ******** PROGRAM AIMED AT HAVING MORE CONTROLL OVER "WE THE PEOPLE"!!!

The government has no right to interfere with a farmer's animals. A horse or cow is the property of the farmer - NOT the governments!!

The best way to solve the healthcare and food safety problems is to assist ALL farmers to transition to organic, sustainable, pasture-based farming. NAIS does not solve either of these problems, just continues to drain the taxpayers of money and farmers of their liberty.

This is shocking and disgraceful. I am ashamed of this government.

I am not a veteran but I am AGAINST the NAIS!!!

I am a veteran and I'll speak for my deceased father and grandfather. 38 years combined service to in the USMC. This is an atrocity! We didn't fight for the rights of corporations. We fought for the rights of the American People..FLESH AND BLOOD.

My health has become very important to me, and so the food I put in my body is important. I watch, in shock, as my government tries to make it harder for me to gain access to healthy food grown locally by small farmers who care about their land and their animals. Any farmer wanting to do the right thing by raising food and animals without chemicals must wade through mounds of red tape and government fees, while the big food producers produce empty calories from grains subsidized by my tax dollars. So many of my tax dollars are paying for food I don't even eat, while the food I eat costs twice as much or more as conventionally grown food.

And now my government wants to add an additional financial and logistical burden on a product that reaps no benefit thereby while turning a blind eye to the products that are poisoning people and the land on which they're grown.

You, my government, are nothing more than a group of the ungoverned. And your cramming this NAIS down our throats is abhorent. I used to be proud of this country; now I'm embarrassed by it and fearful of its leaders because of the power they wield over something as simple as the food I eat.

Money is a wonderful thing, but a good night's sleep is even better.

I am not a veteran, but my husband is. I have 2 horses & 2 dogs & all are micro-chipped for their safe return if we have an emergency. I can't imagine having to do something like this if I wanted a couple of chickens, a goat or 2, a donkey, etc. So, I guess I don't support the NAIS in its form either, even tho I do reccomend that people micro-chip their expensive or dear horses/dogs as it was proven in Louisiana during Katrina that over 90% of these animals were found due to the requirement of micro-chipping.

I want to remind those that are attacking out current government about this, that this process was started 4-5 years ago, as I have been reporting about it on my equine website for that long; therefore, don't blame our current government on something that was started way before many of them were in their positions now, especially our President & his cabinet.

I remember my oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.NAIS is un-constitutional,therefore I cannot support it.Both myself and my wife served our country during the Cold War and do not like the similarities we are seeing between our government and what we stood against.

Yours is an administration that has made many promises to uphold the dignity of our nation and to enforce just applications of our rights and freedoms. The type of behavior displayed by this program is not indicative of a just and fair government and such a program should have never been considered on any level. I have profound respect for our Veterans and Military, and our nation on the whole. Please maintain and enforce what their sacrifices have paid for. You must also know that an informed public would not sanction this abuse of tax dollars.

Small farms and homesteads should be exempted for the simple reason that the vast majority of these folks undertake raising livestock to follow a healthier lifestyle. These animals largely live free-range, antibiotic and hormone free lives, and without the overcrowding that is ubiquitous on factory farms, are virtually never sick. The energy put into the NAIS regulation would be better spent on information campaigns to educate home and small farmers on livestock illnesses, what to look for, how to treat it, and who to contact. Regulations like NAIS only serve to make the populace fearful. Non-farmers come to fear livestock, and small farmers come to fear regulators, and are far less likely to report owning livestock, much less if that livestock becomes ill. Finally, I would like to say this. Don't become the image of a punitive, Big Brother overseer. Find a way to be a friend to the small farmer, a way to be a trusted assistant that the small farmer can turn to in event of trouble. In so doing you will avert many more crises.

First the animals, then us! Only when animals are raised on cramped farms with 100,000's of animals at a time being feed GMO feed, create a problem.

This program is very discriminating and dangerous for us as a nation. I would ask that you please stop any action and take more time to evaluate and weigh this out more fully. This goes beyond concern for the "safety of the public" into control and dictating over people's lives, livlihood, and human dignity and responsibility. Not only is it unconstitutional, it violates the rights of natural persons to express themselves in the manner chosen for them by God - specifically with regards to how they care for His creation and creatures - with dignity and individual identity based on how they were created, not on how we devalue and degrade their existence. Please do not allow this program to go to the extent that this wouild infringe on those responsibilities that many of us take seriously.

I'm not a veteran, but I'm planning a new farm and enjoy food from small farms, and I'm outraged!

I am a grass based farmer in northern Michigan, unfortunately, I was coerced into signing up for NAIS under the pretenses of bovine tuberculosis testing of my cattle and goats. I was told that if I did not test, my farm would be placed under quarantine and no animal movement from or to the farm whatsoever would be allowed to happen. I agreed to the testing, but was not told my farm would be getting a premise number, I found this out at a later date( after testing!) when I received a letter from the Michigan Department of Agriculture giving me my premise number. I feel this was very underhanded and dishonest. Looking back( with 20/20 vision of course),I should have declined testing. Now our great MI State University is pushing for all cattle in the upper peninsula of Mi to be tested for Bovine Viral Diarrhea( we are to be a model for the rest of the country). This is being funded by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, who just happen to sell vaccinations for BVD, and also gave a very large amount of money to MSU to collect the data,etc. When and where will all this nonsense end??? I also just recently learned that if the MDA comes to test our cattle again and I do not have what thye consider "safe handling equipment", my farm will be placed under quarantine, the onus always seems to fall upon the farmers shoulders!!! Thank You