NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION ACT BILL ATTEMPT TO EXCLUDE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

Alert from NONAIS.org: Article by Mary Zanoni.
Read about Senate Farm Bill S.849, sponsored by Sen. Leahy. There will be an attempted exemption of any use of the Freedom of Information Act, if this bill is passed. Cut and paste the link to NoNAIS.org to read this revealing and disturbing article.
http://nonais.org/index.php/2007/10/24/usda-attempts-to-subvert-foia/
"This proposed FOIA exemption for the commonplace contact information of livestock facilities flies in the face of the pending FOIA amendments of S. 849; those pending FOIA amendments would, inter alia, require that any legislation containing FOIA exemptions must specifically state that it contains an exemption to the disclosure normally required under the Freedom of Information Act. Yet the livestock title of the Senate Farm Bill sets forth what is in fact an unprecedented and unwarranted exemption to FOIA disclosure without once mentioning FOIA — in other words, if S. 849 were already law, it would prohibit exactly the type of under-the-radar FOIA exemption being proposed in the Senate Farm Bill livestock title. This is the more distressing for freedom-of-information advocates in that Senator Leahy, the main sponsor of S. 849, is also a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee"