NAIS

[draggonlaady]

For those of you who don't know, NAIS is the National Animal Identification Service, the basic idea of which is that if a central database of who keeps what type of livestock where and who sells what into the food chain exists, then disease control and trace-backs of food chain contamination will be easier.

Of course, tons of people immediately threw a fit, because this obviously means that the gub'nment wants to be able to confinscate your aminals. (Please see the rant about the monkey smuggler, as she's fanatically anti-animal identification.)

Anyway, I signed myself up, being the good commie girl that I am. Cost me all of about 5 minutes and a stamp. I've been signed up for over a year now, and am happy to say that the government has not come to take my horses (yet).

However, they did very nicely send me a letter today, warning me that several horses in the state have potentially been exposed to a highly-contagious disease, and explaining what horses are most at risk, what signs to watch for, and what to do if I notice said signs. You know, this is suspiciously like what they said I was signing up for....

Comments

[brainweevil.livejournal.com]

Anyone who loves big government enough to voluntarily have her possessions cataloged by them so she can receive letters not pertinent to said items nearly has to be a socialist, right? Am I missing a big piece of the definition of socialism, here?

Where on earth did you get the idea that I love you for your breasts? It's your ass, silly. Oh, and maybe a little for your personality.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's EXACTLY why I signed up. Freak.