Green-Trust.Org » livestock http://www.green-trust.org/wordpress Living Sustainably Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:07:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Government Program Seeks to Tag Every Livestock Animal in the United States http://www.green-trust.org/wordpress/2007/01/28/government-program-seeks-to-tag-every-livestock-animal-in-the-united-states/ http://www.green-trust.org/wordpress/2007/01/28/government-program-seeks-to-tag-every-livestock-animal-in-the-united-states/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:53:00 +0000 Steve Spence http://www.green-trust.org/wordpress/2007/01/28/government-program-seeks-to-tag-every-livestock-animal-in-the-united-states/ 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.

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