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PressFor media inquiries, or to receive our updates for NAIS and related issues, please contact Mary-Louise Zanoni, 315-386-3199, Mary@FarmforLife.org . For Background on NAIS and Biographical Information on Mary-Louise Zanoni, please see below. Recent Coverage of NAIS"Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan," The New York Times, June 27, 2009. A concise explanation of why ranchers, "small-scale family farmers and other agrarian advocates" oppose NAIS. Media Coverage of Farm for Life Farm for Life and Mary-Louise Zanoni have been profiled, quoted, and discussed in many major-media articles on NAIS, including articles in
— "Animal ID Plan Angers Some Farmers," USA Today, October 27, 2006, p. 3A. www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-26-animal-id_x.htm "Mary-Louise Zanoni . . . calls [NAIS] a ‘scam’ that will squeeze out small farmers. ‘The only reason for an animal identification system,’ Ms. Zanoni said, ‘is to serve the economic interests of large meat packers and people who are going to sell the technology that will be indispensable in the system.’ " —"Plan for Tracking Animals Meets Farmers’ Resistance," The New York Times, December 13, 2006, p. A23. www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/us/13animals.html "[Mary] Zanoni point[s] out that food-borne disease poses a much more common and serious threat to the human population that NAIS does not even address. . . . Zanoni says strict Christian groups which insist on a literal reading of Revelation 13 will refuse to place what they feel could be a ‘Mark of the Beast’ on their animals. . . . This could be a problem without some flexibility, which is not currently being considered [by the USDA]." —"Export-Fueled National Animal ID Program Raises Many Farmer Objections," The New Farm, April 13, 2006. http://www.newfarm.org/features/2006/0406/nais/frymanross.shtml "Zanoni has academic gloves big enough to spar with the likes of [an industry heavyweight with the influence and clout of a meat business Muhammed Ali]. [Zanoni has] an impressive resume . . . . and her arguments [are] structured as only the best attorney can do." —Chuck Jolley, "Five Minutes with Mary Zanoni," CattleNetwork.com, September 22, 2006. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentId=70500 "What irks Mary Zanoni [about NAIS] is that she believes the current USDA proposal would not make the U.S. meat supply appreciably safer. ‘Basically, the NAIS system would be of no use at all in dealing with the most common types of meat contamination in the U.S., the occurrence of pathogens such as listeria or E. coli in processed meat,’ she says. That’s because when contaminants occur in industrial-scale quantities of meat—as is often the case—and are not discovered until the meat has been distributed through the supply chain, it is all but impossible to find the source. ‘There is no way to identify individual cows from one million pounds of hamburger,’ [Zanoni] says." —"Old Big Brother Had a Farm," Grist, March 10, 2006. http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/03/10/griscom-little/index.html "Mary Zanoni, a Canton, N.Y., attorney, said [NAIS] will kill small farms and end a prevalent practice in many areas of the country where farmers keep pigs or cattle on their properties to feed their families. ‘People with just a few meat animals or 40-cow dairies are already living on the edge financially. The USDA plan will force many of them to give up farming,’ she said." —"Small Farmers Up in Arms Over Livestock ID Program," Scripps Howard News Service, April 20, 2006. http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=ANIMAL-ID-04-20-06 "Among those opposed to the national animal ID system is Mary Zanoni . . . . [who] said, ‘Many aspects of [NAIS] appear to create insurmountable legal, fiscal and logistical problems.’ Zanoni sees . . . potential trampling of religious freedoms for closed societies like the Amish [and] ‘enormously intrusive surveillance against unsuspecting innocent citizens who have done nothing more than to own an animal.’ " —"Resistance Mounts to National Animal Identification System," Dow Jones Newswires, April 7, 2006. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=28250 Background on NAIS, the USDA’s National Animal Identification System Please see our NAIS Fact Sheet for background on the National Animal Identification System. Biographical Information for Mary-Louise Zanoni Ms. Zanoni is a graduate of Cornell University (Ph.D., 1981) and Yale Law School (J.D., 1987). She has taught as an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, and has served as law clerk to a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, to a federal District Judge, and to a federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge. Her legal career has also included positions as a litigation associate at a major New York City law firm and as director of the Staff Attorneys’ Office for the federal courts of the District of New Jersey. Ms. Zanoni has worked as an intern at small grass-based dairies and now lives in rural upstate New York. She publishes the Farm for Life Newsletter, supporting local, small-scale, and sustainable agriculture. For additional background on Mary-Louise Zanoni, please see her resume (PDF). |
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