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Tying The Knot With NAIS and PAWS National Animal Identification System (NAIS) Before I tell you what you likely won't believe, let me assure you that much more will follow. This is only a primer. Background. Setting the stage so you can connect the dots as you learn about new legislation that goes into effect this summer. It will take a lot of education and initiative from animal owners or it's a done deal. You can even call some of the most learned educators in the country nut cases. But read, then call your friends! The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has finally sprung a leak but has yet to reach the public. One has to wonder why it has been suppressed by the media. What have you seen on television? Have you read anything in the newspaper? Hardly! Do you even know anyone else who knows about this?

I promise you the media either does know, will know, or you will know who is in denial. Fair enough? Part of the story is the way in which it has been kept quiet. Can you imagine the networks ignoring a new law that mandates satellite tracking of every food animal, even a chicken raised for the family's own consumption? Seriously, every time a pleasure horse leaves the owner's premises, the government will know when and where it went, and failure to report it can bring stiff penalties! Bill O'Reilly, where are you? Did you know that every piece of property on which resides a food animal must be registered in Big Brother's database? Did you know that detailed information about the property owner will be part of that database? Who kept this story from Sean Hannity? The guy who broke the figures on the Gulf Coast cleanup needs to know NAIS forebodes even more staggering costs, part of which would be the massive tracking database.

The database is to be "privatized" i.e. run by someone other than the government. You covered the clamor on Haliburton? That story was like the Red Cross getting donations compared to who will get this contract? Who dreamed up NAIS and for what reason? This is not speculation. Some lucky company will recoup costs by selling"private" information about the premises owner and their habits! County Fair enthusiast? Polo anyone? It will of course record where and for how much he sells his horse, cow, pig, ducks, etc. Oh. Why has this been kept so hush-hush? Why hasn't the secrecy/privacy issue crossed the aisle of political debate?

There's plenty of payback to go around. You know the old saying, "follow the money" but if they don't need the money, just follow power and egotism as it winds 'round about through stupidity and disinformation. For Politicians, the path to power is as crowded as Sunday morning jogger routes in Central Park! Here's the connection. There is a newer, greater threat to all animal owners. Perhaps there's more prestige connected with a position on the Board of Directors of Applied Digital Technologies, the parent company of Digital Angel. The popular Tennessee politician Tommy Thompson thought so.

And what you ask, does Digital Angel have to do with this NAIS? Okay, the first answer is to be found in this self-description: "Digital Angel Corporation develops advanced RFID and GPS technologies thatenable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, andcondition monitoring of high-value assets. Applications for our products include identification and monitoring of pets, humans, fish and livestock through our patented implantable microchips as well as message monitoring of aircraft in remote locations through integrated GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications systems. "

Now that you can see how enforcement of PAWS would profit a microchip company and you know how one thing leads to another…. After microchip technology to "protect our pets" and there comes GPS tracking of every living thing on the planet. Wow, forget about the millions of dollars to be made from convincing USDA to institute and enforce it, and don't even count the profit potential for "not for profit" organizations like AKC who it seems has already agreed to take some of the burden of inspections off the USDA. For a price of course. Whoops, does that mean either way, the taxpayer pays? Yup. And so does the farmer, private or commercial. We predict inspection fees will be quickly instituted but that's another story.

Go back and reread the part about "monitoring" and "humans." Given no impediments to progress, your children will almost certainly recieve an implant and your grandchildren will welcome it! Amber Alerts would surely be a thing of the past. But let's get back to the here and now. Perhaps I did not make it clear. NAIS is here now. It is already implemented on a voluntary basis in many states and is scheduled to really roll by THIS SUMMER. The same legislation-crafters and backers who invented PAWS only took a tiny little stumble when dog people said "no, we ain't gonna roll over and play dead." They just hitched up their pants, dumped a few more bucks to the lobbyists and PR machines and quietly proceeded to where the real money is.

How many chickens and pigs are there in the civilized world? Can't count that high? Okay, then how many cows in Texas? Okay let's narrow the chip thing down to just a tiny little country like – ummm, let's see…..how about Portugal? Chew on this for a minute, it's from a Digital Angel press release. "ThePortuguese dog identification program is being conducted in conjunction with the country's annual rabies vaccination drive. The Portuguese ministry was prompted to undertake the project because other countries in Europe had experienced excellent results….. The deadline for all of Portugal's approximately 2 million dogs to be identified and registered in a national database is 2007. ….. (DigitalAngel's partner) is Atlanta-based Merial, one of the world's leading animal healthcare companies. …. pet identification is prominent throughout Europe, thanks also to the recently enacted European Union's Pet Passport Initiative." There! We didn't have to count. Two million dogs will be chipped in just the tiny country of Portugal. Remember, that doesn't include other pets and it doesn't include Europe. Microchipping was just a precursor to GPS tracking by NAIS. Stop and think. Microchip, microchip, microchip. Forget about DNA but for goodness sake, microchip. What if your dog is lost? Go back and stare at the words "animal healthcare companies." If you don't make that connection, save this, we're almost done, and later, go to Bad Medicine or Project: Vaccines And if you aren't too upset, and/or ready to kill the messenger, go to: http://dogpolitics.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/nais_us_govt_ma.html

Reference Vickie Haywood's column SHOW ME THE MONEY: spychips! There are no easy decisions but they have to be made.