[ SHOWGSD-L ] NAIS Part Five
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- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:49:42 EDT
> THE SITUATION NOW
>
> The public input meetings across the country were uniformly AGAINST
> the whole idea. The Coalition gave their arguments effectively but
> our side did a through and convincing job of presenting the reasons
> not to make any government ordered change without careful study. In
> summary those arguments are:
>
> 1. The U.S. already HAS a standardized system of pet microchipping
> with 150,000 scanners out there able to read any chip. It makes NO
> sense to introduce a new and incompatible kind of pet microchip in
> order to 'standardize' and 'eliminate incompatibility.' "If it ain't
> broke, don't fix it."
>
> More precisely, "If aint' broke, don't break it in order to fix it."
>
> 2. The proposed 'new universal' scanner (reading both U.S. standard
> 125 kHz and ISO 134.2 kHz ones) does not work reliably; whether
> that's just 'teething' or some more fundamental problem is unknown.
>
> 3. There would necessarily be a period of confusion when some pets
> were chipped one way, some the other, and not all scanners read both
> formats.
>
> 4. The ISO standard was designed for herd inventory. It is NOT
> secure against cloning or resetting of chip numbers because herd
> owners want these features. Some chips can even have the number
> changed while in the animal. This is not suitable for secure
> tracking of large numbers of pets or other animals for disease
> control, return to owner, proof of ownership, insurance, and similar
> purposes.
>
> 5. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: A change of standards can only be
> accomplished by a government mandate that will inevitably come with a
> centrally operated and essentially public domain database of pets.
> 99% of the use of that database will be to enforce laws against
> whatever your local animal control considers 'irresponsible' pet
> owners. The database (not the ISO chip or any desire to get more
> pets home) is the reason for HSUS, ASPCA, and animal control
> organization support.
>
> WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
>
> In a perfect world, APHIS would weigh all the inputs according to
> their quality and make a decision accordingly: The logical decision
> would be "No government mandate to standardize on a product that
> nobody wants." However, this isn't a perfect world. It appears that
> the head of APHIS is unhappy that all the NAIS money is going to
> other parts of USDA. Basically, it looks to me like APHIS is going
> to decide that a plan very much along the lines above is a good first
> step toward making pets part of NAIS.
>
> I think that APHIS has been promised that the Coalition will support
> making pets part of NAIS once the first step is accomplished. That
> would be a good deal for everyone: for Banfield because (I believe)
> they have a deal for Datamars chips at a near giveaway price; for
> Datamars because it would give them a solid foothold in the U.S. chip
> marketplace; for the Coalition because it would mean microchipping
> and registration in a single government-sponsored data base for all
> pets; and for APHIS because it would need bunches of money to make
> the data base and maybe 200 million pet registrations happen. In any
> case it is appears that APHIS is completely on board, bought, sold,
> and done deal. The necessary laws are already in existence and they
> just have to go through the rulemaking formalities -- a process that
> will take just a few more months.
>
> It appears to me that the AVMA has been suckered into this. I think
> they didn't know they were signing on to the ISO standard but thought
> they were just backing some sort of motherhood and apple pie
> 'standardization' of pet microchips. The small animal vets who form
> the bulk of the AVMA's board of directors tend to be do-gooders, not
> exactly of strong candlepower. You can see the thinking, here:
>
> http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/sep05/050901p.asp
>
> Shades of "we have to be involved" -- the AKC's rationale for its
> total support of PAWS.
>
> AAHA I have no clue about. Probably brain-dead do-gooderism again.
>
> You'd like to think that this is so stupid and so obviously what it
> is -- just an idea for a law to take our money out of our pockets and
> put it in those of Datamars, Banfield, and others, with no benefit to
> pets and horrific damage to pet ownership and the pet supply system --
> that it has no chance. However the reverse appears to be true. I
> think this is on greased rails and if we do nothing, it WILL happen.
> If it stays on those tracks I'd guess that five years from now there
> will be a law requiring all pets to be chipped and registered. In a
> later post I'll go into what we can do to stop it.
>
> REMEMBER -- On May 26th, 2005, PAWS was a 'done deal' -- no chance it
> could be stopped. Today, although still alive, it sits in some
> dusty congressional closet, covered with green flies.
>
> Walt Hutchens
> Timbreblue Whippets
> Virginia
>
> THIS MAY BE FORWARDED FREELY
>
"You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
Mahatma Gandhi
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