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[Toni Pralle <toni.pralle@gmail.com>]

You are right to be worried. Since when has the government ever HELPED you? This is all a part of National Animal Identification System.

http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/

Since beef isn't really inspected, how is this program going to trace back to the origin the contaminated food? Animals are contaminated at the slaughter house. I will have to file the paperwork if I take my 28 year old horse for a walk down my gravel road, giving location and property owner name for every place we go. File that within 24 hours. And why would she need to be chipped? Are we eating horses here? No, but they are being shipped out of the country to be eaten there. Do I tag my 17 chicken? Imagine the expense and time. My chickens free range. Sometimes a wild animal gets one. I don't want that to happen and I do my best that it doesn't but there are times all I find are the feathers. If I were a big corporation, I could use one ID number for the whole herd. Now that's the way to do it, ya think? If I have 1 horse or cow or pig or chicken, I have to track it for it's entire life. If I have a thousand of them, then one number is good enough. Think about that. One animal will end up where? And a thousand of them will end up??????? There are already specific systems in place. USE THEM! Why duplicate and why punish the small farmer? Could it be so that the big folks can make some more money. Whoever controls the food controls the people. What was life like before Monsanto? And now Monsanto is powerful enough that they can sue and win a case of their contamination of organic food to make the organic farmer pay Monsanto. DON'T get me started. When they inject that chip under YOUR skin it will be too late. Do you really want Big Brother following your every move? You have nothing to hide, you say? Read 1984 more carefully. http://www.stopanimalid.org/    http://nonais.org/  A good and scary read is The Rise of The Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs. 
 It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg
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