National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association(NICFA)

NICFA

California Raw Milk Hearing: Four ICFA Members Testify on Panel
Read Testimonies

Read Joel Salatin's Testimony before the United States Congress; April 17, 2008; House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subject: After the Beef Recall: Exploring Greater Transparency in the Meat Industry.

The USDA’s New Strategy for NAIS and a New Texas Program of Cattle “Tuberculosis ID Requirements” Click here for the full article.

WE WILL NOT COMPLY Click here for updates and more information on Greg Niewendorp and Mark Nolt, two NAIS resistors who are leading the way.

Click here for more information on Richard Bean's and Jean Rinaldi's arrest.

Read Anti-NAIS Talking Points document for your use and to distribute.

Read Additional Anti-NAIS Talking Points document for your use and to distribute.

Read the Cooperative Agreement between Virginia Department of Agriculture and the USDA on implementaion strategies for NAIS for your use and to distribute.

Read the Virginia Tech RFID research agreement for your use and to distribute.

Read the rebuttal to Booby Orrocks letter on NAIS legislation in Virginia for your use and to distribute.

Mary Zanoni Articles on NAIS.

See movies from Farm Food Voices DC 2007 and read the reports.

Pro-Consumer

"All individuals have the God-given, inalienable right to procure the food of their choice, from the source of their choice."

Pro Farmer

A farmer's livelihood depends on his/her ability to cater to consumer's demands without unfair government restrictions.

Pro Freedom

"... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." ~Declaration of Independence

Anti-NAIS

NAIS imposes on all livestock and animal owners a high-tech, high-cost livestock backtrack system requiring:

Registration of any premises where even one animal, a chicken, pet donkey, etc� is kept, in a database accessible to many agencies and foreign governments.
Radio Frequency ID (RFID) microchipping or tagging of every animal.
Reporting and recording each animal�s movements within 24 hours, under threat of severe penalty, including confiscation of animals and fines of $1000 per day, per infraction.