Somewhat interesting information
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is embarking upon a new program that seeks to have every single livestock animal in the United States identified, tagged and possibly implanted with a radio chip. The highly controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS) would require anyone who owns even one livestock animal — such as a pigeon, rabbit, chicken or horse — to register that animal and its location in a federal database.
The USDA maintains that the program could help track and contain disease outbreaks. But livestock owners criticize the USDA’s intentions, claiming that this is just another federally supported benefit for large-scale "factory farm" producers, whose animals are the most at risk for disease outbreaks. In addition, the NAIS will place a financial burden on small-scale livestock owners, and invade individual privacy, to boot. Currently, enrollment in NAIS is voluntary, but the program is scheduled to become mandatory by 2009.
(see article HERE)
View the details of the USDA’s implementation plan.
Read legal comments about NAIS.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is embarking upon a new program that seeks to have every single livestock animal in the United States identified, tagged and possibly implanted with a radio chip. The highly controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS) would require anyone who owns even one livestock animal — such as a pigeon, rabbit, chicken or horse — to register that animal and its location in a federal database.
The USDA maintains that the program could help track and contain disease outbreaks. But livestock owners criticize the USDA’s intentions, claiming that this is just another federally supported benefit for large-scale "factory farm" producers, whose animals are the most at risk for disease outbreaks. In addition, the NAIS will place a financial burden on small-scale livestock owners, and invade individual privacy, to boot. Currently, enrollment in NAIS is voluntary, but the program is scheduled to become mandatory by 2009.
(see article HERE)
View the details of the USDA’s implementation plan.
Read legal comments about NAIS.
posted by Amethyst Rising at 6:13 PM
2 Comments:
Also on the agenda, all televisions must have Two Way Capability by 2010 so that the FBI can track the status of "in home sexual promiscuity" which states that no couple, married or otherwise, shall engage in oral copulation lest they be charged with felony assault.
Big Brother is Watching.
And now to the weather...
LOL...
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