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Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The NY Times reports that farmers and ranchers oppose a government program to identify livestock with microchip tags that would allow the computerized recording of livestock movements from birth to the slaughterhouse. Proponents of the USDA's National Animal Identification System say that computer records of cattle movements mean that when a cow is discovered with bovine tuberculosis or mad cow disease, its prior contacts can be swiftly traced. Ranchers say the extra cost of the electronic tags places an onerous burden on a teetering industry. Small groups of cattle are often rounded up in distant spots and herded into a truck by a single person who could not simultaneously wield the hand-held scanner needed to record individual animal identities. The ranchers also note that there is no Internet connection on many ranches for filing to a regional database. 'Lobbyists from corporate mega-agribusiness designed this program to destroy traditional small sustainable agriculture,' says Genell Pridgen, an owner of Rainbow Meadow Farms. The notion of centralized data banks, even for animals, has also set off alarms among libertarians who oppose NAIS. One group has issued a bumper sticker that reads, 'Tracking cattle now, tracking you soon.' 'They can't comprehend the vastness of a ranch like this,' says Jay Platt, the third-generation owner of a 22,000 acre New Mexico ranch. 'This plan is expensive, it's intrusive, and there's no need for it.'"
LOL
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
I think the ranchers oppose having their animals chipped because then it becomes too easy for the government to abuse its power and round their cattle up like cattle.
Are you adequate?
FUCK YOU. I abhor your fucking vegetarians industry. Dumb fucks. Plants are living things too. Why stop there then? Nothing, and I mean nothing, not even religious zealots, piss me off more than vegetarians. EAT MOAR CHIKUN bitches. And before you mod this TROLL, read what I'm saying. Its true.
I don't think they're going to be cowed down.
Karma fed to this user will be promptly burnt. Be warned; be wary.
There are so many ways you are being tracked already, the 'Tracking cattle now, tracking you soon" fear isn't paranoia, it's whistling in the dark.
Well there's only one thing that I know how to do well, and I've often been told that you can only do what you know how to do well -- and that's be you! Be what you're like. Be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
The enemies of Democracy are
If the bovine has done nothing wrong, surely it has nothing to fear from being tracked. After what's the worst that can happen to it?
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I would have gone with "Ranchers Have Beef With Cow Chips"
cowfax.com - ask your butcher "Show me the CowFax"!
Sound like he should have submitted the paper on "Subject/Object Ambiguation."
Day 12, still compulsively masturbating to the mental image of a tenured academic figuratively raping the Regents and Trustees. It appears that momentary respite from this condition is possible through the conscious recollection of the aroma of sauerkraut, as served in the cantine."
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Plus, if you don't like it you can choose not to support the slave industry...
Well, as long as nobody is forced to support it, there isn't a slave industry.
And if the cows weren't forced to support it, there wouldn't be a meat industry either.
I tried to free my cow. She just stood there going "mooo". So I ate her.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
cause every cow needs its own IP address. And cows don't like NAT. No bull.
If the bovine has done nothing wrong, surely it has nothing to fear from being tracked. After what's the worst that can happen to it?
You mean like...
[ Source: Cows with guns ]