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Re: Register your farm and every unit of livestock
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Posted by Matt from CT on July 27, 2006 at 12:17:23 from (24.177.7.108):
In Reply to: Register your farm and every unit of livestock posted by VTfarm on July 26, 2006 at 17:58:34:
Tracking animals for disease purposes has been around for decades. Remember the All Creatures Great & Small books, some of the stories revolved around government work done by the vet...including checking tatoos and recording them right. Probably even older where state branding laws. The troublesome part of NAIS and this is what the state effort's like Vermont's is about, is the desire not just to keep records but require them for all, kept in a central database, and for better or worse a database maintained by a private entity. Should I have to register my few acres because I'd like to have some chickens and pigs? Should I register if I had kids who want to go to the fair? Should the fair keep track of the names of exhibitors, what they showed, and their addresses? Absolutely. Do we *need* a series of databases that keep all this information collected for rapid cross indexing? Nope. It invites fishing for information just for the purpose of fishing. The primary problem it addresses on the face of it -- epidemic animal diseases -- is one we'd probably be much better off as a society, and farmers as farmers, if we addressed root causes such as unreasonably large feeding operations and husbandry practices. NAIS is aimed primarily at protecting large corporate farms from disease outbreaks which they are particularly vulnerable too, while at the same time exempting many of them from the most onerous requirement (individual animal identification).
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