Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections
Animal owners will be required to tag every animal that leaves an identified premises. Every time an animal is sent to auction, to the slaughter house, to a fair or taken on a trail ride, the government wants to be informed. Fines of up to $1,000 per day are built into the proposal for non-compliance. Cost estimates by APHIS run to as much as $3 for each RFID device and up to $2,000 for readers. There will be additional costs (read taxes or fees) to administer the program.
I was reading what north texan wrote about the ID of animals on the farm subsidies... Found it quite interesting...They want to keep track of every animal in this country...Your pets will be next on this list I am sure....This is just crazy... On a side note,,thats goanna take more time and money and energy to tag all them poultry farms chickens....
RE: Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections
They couldn't enforce regulations like this if they tried. It's pointless to try, and it would certainly hurt the bottom lines of farmers across the country. More bureacracy at work....
RE: Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections
its purpose is to increase meat exports or control disease outbreaks, I don't think chickens will be tagged for shipping if they are deboned....any one in the chicken business out there?
RE: Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections
I still have no clue why we are doing this. ***an is claiming this is needed to "safeguard" against BSE. Looking at the U.S. track record, we have had a grand total of 2, that's right, 2 cases of BSE. One dairy cow from Canada and one domestic beef cow that predates some of the feeding requirements. Now consider the U.S beef herd alone produces 20 million animals eacy year for slaughter. And neither animal was ever destined for the food chain. That tells me the safeguards we have work. Not only that, but feeding ruminant by-products to ruminants is a practice that has not been allowed in the U.S. for years. This practice is still allowed in many countries, and it is believed that is where BSE is introduced to the animal.
The reality of the situation is ***an has a beef industry with costs of production from 2-3x higher than those in the U.S. Other countries can produce beef cheaper, but the ***anese consumers are very finicky, prefering only high quality grain-fed beef. Beef in Australia, Argentina, and Brazil is largely grass fed. The ***anese consumers will pass on it. However, U.S. beef benefits from advanced genetics, animal health practices, and animal feeding practices that lead to tender beef. ***anese consumers can get it for less than domestic beef and were crazy about it. Once BSE hit, the ***anese government took the opportunity of the "health threat" to skirt their trade obligations and restrict U.S. imports. They realize they will not be able to ban us completely, but they have decided to insist upon the most restrictive, costly measures imaginable to help protect their domestic producers from low cost U.S. beef.
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RE: Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections
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its purpose is to increase meat exports or control disease outbreaks, I don't think chickens will be tagged for shipping if they are deboned....any one in the chicken business out there?
I never seen a live deboned chicken before canuck...
Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections
