That USDA took significant notice of what happened in Europe with both mad cow and hoof & mouth disease and doesn’t want to see the meat industry COLLAPSE from such a catastrophe.
It CAN happen here.
Its about money, power, tax collection and control. There is no better way to track & control the food supply.
Yes, an outbreak can happen here. How hard would it be for some Earth First activists to get some hoof & mouth disease on their hands and then tour county fairs or livestock auctions for a few weeks? How would NAIS prevent this?
Thus the inclusion of pigs and sheep.
Yes, but that is not what this is about. This is about control over the smaller farms. The large feed lots do not have to track each animal, but each individual does.
Even if that animal is only for personal consumption and never leaves your property.
Except you can already track that. That's why we haven't had an outbreak and even things like E.coli can be tracked back to the exact processing equipment and farm the animal came from.
It's just a scam by Cargill, etc. with larger profit margins to drive up the cost of production and force their competition out of business.
The European experiences were the result of the worst of factory farming practices. The solution here is to encourage appropriate sanitation and feeding practices, to inhibit disease, not to implement a boondoggle of a program that forces smaller farms out of business.