Ridiculous!
Maybe the motivation is bird flu preparedness. If it ever becomes that big a threat, they'll kill all of the chickens except for a select few sequestered in the lab, and most of the wildfowl, then rebreed. That would make more sense than tracking through 15 digits of chicken ID to contain an epidemic.
This isn't like mad cow, where it is rare and the numbers of animals in a given lot of meat products is manageable. How many chicken IDs do you think go into a bucket of chicken nuggets?
How anyone can vote for these idiots I'll never understand.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565481/posts
USDA steps up efforts to track livestock
http://nationalpropertyowners.org
National Property Owners
Full research sections on National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Information on where the funding came from for NAIS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
Information on some of the partners on these posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564815/posts
Digital Angel and Microchip
Info on the technology that will be used for the tagging
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((Pet chickens ping)))
All locations containing livestock animals must register as farms. $10 annual premise ID and premise registration fee will be required for all homes where any animal ever exists, even if just visiting.
How the hell am I suppose to know if a chicken ever visited my home? The house is 30 yrs. old and We've only been here 7.
Dogs and cats and goldfish
Is this legit? I haven't seen any other references to it anywhere.
AUSTRALIA: Australian beef producers attack livestock identification system as they see U.S. move away from mandatory rules.
Australian beef producers have hit out at the imposition of a mandatory livestock identification system, which they say erodes the sector’s competitiveness. The producers are angry that they have a mandatory system when other leading beef producers are introducing voluntary systems.
“The USA will not be implementing a mandatory cattle identification program by 2009 and USDA has dropped a six-month-old plan for contracting with a privatized central database to launch cattle identification,” said Australian Beef Association Vice Chairman Brad Bellinger.
The ABA reports that in addressing the Ranchers-Cattlemen’s Action Legal Fund, Neil Hammerschmidt, USDA’s National Animal Identification Systems coordinator, laid to rest concerns that any mandatory system will be implemented. They said that Hammerschmidt said there is no one working on the rules to implement a mandatory program.
“This buries claims made by Cattle Council of Australia that America is on track to implement a similar NLIS as Australia,” Bellinger said. “There is as strong an opposition to implement such a scheme among America’s ranchers as there is among Australian producers, yet this time the American government has taken on board their concerns and implemented them.”
Bellinger called for an end by the Cattle Council of distributing inaccurate information about NLIS in overseas countries.
“Australia is looking more isolated in its implementation of NLIS, when the world’s largest beef-consumer country has rejected any such scheme,” he added. “Financial costs like NLIS and restrictions upon our management are seriously eroding our competitive advantage in supplying an increasingly contested world beef market.”
Web posted: February 15, 2006
Category: Legislation and Regulation,Trade
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#1--The Dept. of Agriculture is the third highest funded department in the Fed., after Defense and HHS. If you give a government worker the ability to write a budget request and a Congressman the ability to fund it, you're going to get projects like this. The only way to stop it is to make dollars so tight in Washington that they have trouble finding the money to buy a cup of coffee.
#2--Projects like this (and those big automated highway signs) are the result of big companies promising big campaign contributions if only the Congresslugs will vote to fund the company's latest pet project. It's a win-win for both because the campaign contribution is funded out of the profits from the project.
The only option we have as voters and outraged citizens is to get back in control of the purse strings, and the only way to do that is to vote for congressmen who are committed to reducing federal spending, passing massive tax reform, eliminating the IRS, and reducing the size of government. I can only think of 2-3 Republicans that qualify.
Enviro-whack rules in Texas gone too far ping.
ROFLMAO! Speaking of chicks: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
that's about the penultimate-stupidest thing i've ever heard! So i reckon the taxpayers will pay for all the electronics and the skilled labor to insert it all, huh? Wow, i can't wait to pay MORE taxes for stupid stuff no one but a few bean counters care about!