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National ID Cards, uh, Tags for Animals

Ronald Bailey | 5.17.2006 2:59 PM

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The USDA is phasing in the National Animal Identification System which would eventually require that all livestock be tagged allowing the Feds to track livestock electronically. First they came for the cows and ….

Hat tip to Pamela Friedman.

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Ronald Bailey is science correspondent at Reason.

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