[Calpernia]

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

Not complying with the microchipping is a Class C felony. You will lose your rights to bear arms and vote.

[Calpernia]

"We're looking over our shoulders so much, afraid of something terrible happening, that we can't see that this is no way to live."

Words of Wisdom

[coydog]

Did the people behind this honestly expect little Susie to file a report to the feds every time she rides her shetland pony up the road to visit the neighbor kid?

[taxed2death]

Wouldn't a simple retina scan be a better / cheaper alternative?

[KJC1]

Will we also be tagging goats over in....oh, nevermind.
Bad day.

[MaDeuce]

"...I'm just going to hold out up here until the government comes to get me.

Thats right copper! You ain't take'n me in seeee!
Top of the World Ma!!!!!

[Cicero]

Good grief. Can't we start with illegal aliens rather than chickens?

[muawiyah]

The chickens will be the most readily handled. Recall the time you and I got together and "sexed" 100,000 a day at that chicken mill in Arkansas!

We could have tied a cheap transponder tag to each and every one of them without an additional movement.

Or, we could have slapped a barcode on each one ~ they don't live long you know!

[ronnied]

seattle is losing, 14 to 3... does that help...

[Calpernia]

>>>It's called the National Animal Identification System. It seeks to assign each animal a 15-digit ID number and physical tag such as a radio-frequency device. So far it's voluntary, but it's slated to be mandatory in 2009 for any animal that moves from one property to another (i.e. if they're sold, borrowed, displayed at a fair, or just wander around a lot.)

Not necessarily.

Excerpt:

Two States Set Premises Registration Deadlines; USDA Launches ID System Web Site

Both Wisconsin and Indiana have set deadlines for registering livestock premises as part of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Wisconsin, the first state to mandate premises registration, has set a Nov. 1, 2005, deadline, though they have proposed a "compliance window" after that date with certain groups being phased in. See their web site for details: http://datcp.state.wi.us/ah/agriculture/animals/premises/premises_registration.h\ tml

In Indiana beginning Sept. 1, 2006, premises registration will be required for "each person that buys, sells or exhibits livestock".

Individuals must obtain a premises ID number for each of their Indiana premises. Certain species, including camelids are exempt from this deadline, though they may register voluntarily. See their web site for details: http://www.in.gov/boah/

Currently, premises registration is underway in 46 states with registration systems expected to be fully operational in all 50 states by the end of 2005.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Another problem: It's insane. Especially for people who own just a handful of animals.

Bush's corporate elite buddies will make mom and pop businesses a thing of he past by over-regulation. This is an example. The wealthy corporate elite are as bad as the Stalinist left. While conservatives are busy watching the Marxists, the bankers and corporate elite are busy scheming how to divide the consumer world store, kinda like the mafia.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

By 2008, you'll need the card, embedded with a radio-frequency chip, to board planes, open a bank account or use government services. The goal is to make it tougher for terrorists to move freely among us.

Great way to create a black market. Buy gold and hide it. It appreciates and doesn't get taxed. Or, do as the illegal aliens do. Stay away from banks. Don't fly across borders, walk across them.

This whole business of Homeland Security sucks. I never liked the word homeland to begin with. I never thought of America as a homeland. I think of it as a refuge from old world oppression. It warmed me up as much as the New World Order term used by Jorge II's father. The homeland is for the American Indians.

[xrp]

Uhhh...what about wild animals?

[KittyKares]

I'm not particularly concerned about tagging animals in the marketplace, but what's this about requiring people to have chips? That would be going too far. I'd have to see an official announcement of this plan to really believe it.

[Jack Black]

I remember thinking that people worried about 'the mark of the beast' were paranoid. OK. Time to reset my thinking.

[A. Pole]

I know who is behind it. The vegetarians!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...It's well-meaning....

It absolutely is not.