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    About Us
    Welcome to my website! I'm
    Susan Meier and I raise
    Netherland Dwarfs and
    Holland Lops for show,
    breeding stock, 4H, and pets.

    I got my first dwarfs in the fall
    of 1998,
    and my first hollands in May,
    2001. I did raise meat rabbits
    some time ago for about 10
    years.

    I am a member of ARBA,
    OSNDRC, ANDRC, HLRSC,
    and OHLRF.
    Our rabbitry is registered with
    the ARBA.
    ANDRC Charter Breeder, No
    883
Suzys Lancelot, Black Otter Jr Buck
w/plaque for BOB and carrier for
Reserve In Show at Troy on 3-13-05
HCRBA, Norwalk, 5-7-05
Lancelot wins his 4th BOB and his
2nd RIS!
***Oct, 2005, 9th Top Dwarf in
ANDRC!!***
No Mandatory NAIS

I’m writing to make everyone aware of NAIS, which
is threatening our traditional way of life here in
Ohio and the entire US. The NAIS is the National
Animal Identification System which the USDA has
instituted. At this time participation in this program
is voluntary by state, but each state can make it
mandatory. It is mandatory in Michigan at this time.
ODA plans to make it mandatory in Ohio by 2009.

If NAIS becomes mandatory in Ohio, every
premise that holds, produces or manages
livestock will be required to be registered. This
includes farms, markets, stock yards, processing
plants, fairgrounds, auctions, and your back yard,
etc.

The following species are all included:
bovine (bison, cattle)
equine (horses, donkeys, mules)
goats
poultry (chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea
fowl, and squab)
captive game birds (pheasants, quail, wild turkeys,
migratory wildfowl, pigeons, and exotic birds,)
sheep
swine (other than wild hogs but including pot belly
pigs)
cervid (deer, elk, moose, caribou, reindeer)
camelids (llamas, alpacas)
ratites (rheas, ostriches, emu, cassowary, kiwi)
fish (aquaculture)

At this time dogs, cats and rabbits are exempt
from this regulation.

With NAIS, each animal included will be assigned
an individual number. Each time you buy, sell, or
loan an animal, you must report it to the Ohio Dept
of Agriculture. Each time an animal gives birth or
dies, you must report it to the ODA. Every time
you take an animal from your premises for any
reason, including 4H projects at the fair, you must
report it to the ODA.

There is no fee to register your premises but there
is a fee for each and every animal you register
with this program, which you, the owner, will have
to pay.

I have strong objections to this program becoming
mandatory and hope all of you do, too. We are
losing our freedoms in this country on a daily
basis, do we want the government intruding even
further into our daily lives and business? Our
military is fighting and dying to preserve our
freedom, we need to fight, as well, here at home.
This program was instituted by the USDA without
any vote by the general public. Some states are
making it mandatory without any vote by the
general public, we all need to make sure Ohio isn’t
one of them.

Do you think NAIS becoming mandatory won’t
affect you because you don’t raise or keep
animals? Think about this, what happens any time
it costs more to produce any commodity or
product? That cost is passed on to the consumer,
that’s you and me and anyone else who eats meat
or keeps a few chickens for fresh eggs. Does one
of your kids or grandkids take a goat or pony to
the county fair? It will affect you. Do you raise a
steer or pig for the freezer? It will affect you.

What can we do? Contact the Ohio State
Representatives, State Senators, the Governor,
and the ODA and let them know what you think of
this program. Suggest that they pass a law here in
Ohio that will prohibit making NAIS a mandatory
program. Write letters to your local papers to  
make others aware of this situation and ask that
they get involved, as well. We all need to act now
to stop NAIS from becoming mandatory. You can
learn more and how to fight this at http://www.
libertyark.net/

Here is a Yahoo discussion group against NAIS in
Ohio, http://groups.yahoo.
com/group/Ohioians_against_NAIS

Susan Meier

To learn more about fighting NAIS, go to http:
//www.nonais.org/
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