pdfangus":3mpjomhc said:
how about this.....
if we had a national electronic ID system and cattle were implanted with an RFID device....they could be tracked to the market and who got the check and that person could be apprehended.
But noooo. no one wanted anything to do with new technology and the guvment tracking their cows.
so battle cattle thieves the same way we have for thousands of years.....catch em if you can.
And rightfully not. Rather deal with a single group of cattle thieves than a whole bunch of them in Washington. Just as the proponents of a national ID system boasted on the remarkable system they have in the United Kingdom some of us checked in on this for verification and found their system truly wanting. For bureacracy it is a wonderful job creator and gives them even more of your freedom so they can dole it out morsel at a time. For instance, if you need to move a cow from one county to the next you have to get a moving permit and an inspector must come out and see the animal. You have to also time this properly so the cerfified licensed and government approved livestock hauler who has been trained in animal welfare, animal health and animal rights will also be there since its illegal to move an animal yourself. You then, with all present, can load the animal up and haul it to the next county where the animal must sit on the trailer till that county's animal welfare agent must again inspect the animal and sign off on and verify the animal. Hauling to the stockyard is no different. Its a nightmare. My friend purchased some weanling pigs in Devon eight weeks ago and is waiting for delivery. I guess its holiday season and he's yet to be able to have them delivered. No big deal for him really since he isn't having to feed them at the moment but I suspect when they finally get around to delivering them he'll be getting hogs rather than piglets. I don't think we need a system anything like this no matter how good a system they tell us it is.