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Sun, 23 Apr 2006
RFID 'Til the Cows Come Home

A tech magazine joins the drumbeat against this stupidity. Note that the USDA officials quoted keep changing the parameters of the plan: USA Today reported

that the government will not include the age of animals, despite the key role age has played in mad cow disease investigations. So what's the point of this whole exercise? Somebody's lying somewhere - and unless we find out who and where small livestock operations will permanently disappear from the American agricultural landscape when this insanity is finally mandated.

Critics lambast plan to tag most U.S. farm animals by 2008 as a giant boondoggle for the tech industry. Audrey Hudson reports from Washington, D.C.

(link) [Wired News: Top Stories]

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:00 /Agriculture | 0 writebacks | permanent link