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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 201734" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I dont know about other states, but in Missouri and Arkansas, every adult cow that goes through any sales barn is identified. If the cow was calfhood vaccinated, she will have an eartag and a tattoo number in her ear. If she does not have that, the sales barn is required by law to put a metal ID tag in her ear and record it. Every cow, for slaughter or to go back to the farm, is bled and recorded as to who brought her to the sale. Every cow can be traced through this ID system through every sale barn she has come through and who sold her. There is a small percentage that have lost their tags, this will happen with any tag ID system. Until there are laws to protect the cattle owners from blame for an animal's history if that owner did nothing wrong, it is assinine to mandate a time consuming, expensive ID tracking system. If there is a cow with a problem, every past owner of that cow will face bankrupting costs to clear his or her name, even if they had nothing to do with causing the problem. Until the liberal courts are reined in, and I dont believe that will ever happen, the people who are pushing the ID programs are asking every cattleman to potentially go bankrupt from something they did not do. But that is the whole purpose of the programs, government control of everything you do and push the independent people and independent decisions out of the business. Be careful what you wish for and if you get it, dont ask for pity if you are blamed for something that wasnt your fault and you spend everything you have trying to clear your name or fight off lawsuits over an animal that you did not contribute to it's problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 201734, member: 1150"] I dont know about other states, but in Missouri and Arkansas, every adult cow that goes through any sales barn is identified. If the cow was calfhood vaccinated, she will have an eartag and a tattoo number in her ear. If she does not have that, the sales barn is required by law to put a metal ID tag in her ear and record it. Every cow, for slaughter or to go back to the farm, is bled and recorded as to who brought her to the sale. Every cow can be traced through this ID system through every sale barn she has come through and who sold her. There is a small percentage that have lost their tags, this will happen with any tag ID system. Until there are laws to protect the cattle owners from blame for an animal's history if that owner did nothing wrong, it is assinine to mandate a time consuming, expensive ID tracking system. If there is a cow with a problem, every past owner of that cow will face bankrupting costs to clear his or her name, even if they had nothing to do with causing the problem. Until the liberal courts are reined in, and I dont believe that will ever happen, the people who are pushing the ID programs are asking every cattleman to potentially go bankrupt from something they did not do. But that is the whole purpose of the programs, government control of everything you do and push the independent people and independent decisions out of the business. Be careful what you wish for and if you get it, dont ask for pity if you are blamed for something that wasnt your fault and you spend everything you have trying to clear your name or fight off lawsuits over an animal that you did not contribute to it's problems. [/QUOTE]
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