The National Animal Identification System, food safety, and school lunches: cui bono?

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	The National Animal Identification System, food safety, and school lunches: cui bono?

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8-6-2008 10:12 AM

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A Wisconsin family farmer criticizes the NAIS, which requires all livestock to carry a RFID tag (prohibitively expensive for non-CAFO-type operations, i.e., small family farmers). To him, it looks like another agribusiness attempt to shut down small, organic producers.

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was considering a provision that would force schools to buy meat
for the School Lunch Program from sources enrolled in the federal
government's National Animal Identification System. NAIS is hugely
controversial among family farmers like me. The U.S. government
wants us to inventory, identify and track the movement of all
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