Your voice is crucial in protecting small farms and local food systems from burdensome federal regulations! Meeting with your representative in person is one of the most effective ways to influence their stance on this issue.
Please take immediate action against the USDA’s Animal ID mandate that will go into effect in only twelve weeks if we don’t act, which threatens to impose costly and unnecessary requirements on small-scale farmers and ranchers.
What You Can Do to Help:
1. Request an In-District Meeting
Contact your Congressmember’s office and ask for an in-district meeting to discuss your concern and opposition to the USDA Animal ID mandate. Meeting with your representative or their staff face-to-face makes the greatest impact, ensuring that they understand the negative impacts this policy would have on your farm, your community and our local food systems. And the legislators are all back in their home districts for the summer recess, until September 9. If you simply cannot do an in-person meeting, then ask for a phone call with their staff.
2. Locate Your Representative and Their District Office
In order to set up a meeting with your Representative in-district, it’s preferable you call their district office closest to where you live, and not their DC office. Any number with a (202) area code will direct you to their DC office. When you look up your Representative, you will see a list of office locations and phone numbers.
3. Discuss the Key Points:
– Impact on Small Farmers: Explain how the USDA’s Animal ID mandate would impose heavy financial burdens on small farmers, requiring costly electronic tracking systems that could put many out of business.
– Threat to Local Food Systems: Emphasize that this mandate disproportionately affects small-scale operations, which are vital to maintaining local food systems, food security, and biodiversity.
– Call for Exemptions: Urge your Congressmember to support H.J. Res. 167 that eliminates this mandate.
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We thank you for standing up for small farmers and local food systems! They truly need your commitment to get Congress to stop the USDA’s electronic animal ID mandate.
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Foti Galanis says
This expansion of federal government is appallingly after they continue to neglect serious issues with the American food supply. This is a cash grab and follows someone else’s agenda.
Glenda Horton says
It’s my understanding that mandates are NOT laws. But they will try to enforce them just like they did with mask mandates. Again not law! I will contact my representatives and remind them of this attempted overreach and of the Chevron Deference. The Chevron Deference was overturned by SCOTUS in July 2024. Therefore these mandates and laws that are not Constitutional, are not legal.
Margaret says
..none of this stuff applys if your political status( and thus possessions) puts you outside the jurisdiction of these pirates( in truth our employees gone rogue!). For more on this facet of this diamond see:
http://Www.annavonreitz.com
http://Www.tasa.net/ the american states assemblys.net, and Anna’s podcast on Tuesdays at 11 am mountain standard time:
Margaret says
It is also very noteworthy what happens when these alternating currents n their relatives like implanted frequency generators( I. D. crap) are alleviated!!!!!:for great “examples/testimonials”:
See:
Also ….considering the effects of these alternating currents – in whatever form- and, honesty prevailing, these are military grade assault weapons Ala smart meters/ 5g( they’re actually incorporating 7g unannounced now). And, very reliable, in murdering the animals’s(? Grammar?) lifes. Consider how deadly the 5g turning on has been, and their massive fraud to cover that up by heisting the conversation with the red herring sham influenza. These pirates are irresponsible, stupid , and foolishness. ⚠️
Margaret says
I addendum
See examples:
http://Www.geofield systems.com/Dan Schahofski
And,