07 Feb 2010
U.S.D.A. Plans to Drop Program to Trace Livestock

I don't know what to say: NAIS has been nixed! I never expected this, never. I'll read it as all good news, but Walter over at NoNais has a good write up and a caveat:

I hope that Vilsack is serious about taking input from ordinary people and not just government, industry and vets. Disease prevention programs will live and die by the hand of the many, not the few. It is education that fights disease as has been historically proven time and again. Heavy handed mandates and regulations will simply produce scoff-laws, rebellion and unenforceable systems. He does not have the money or man power to drive every back road of America.

Faced with stiff resistance from ranchers and farmers, the Obama administration has decided to scrap a national program intended to help authorities quickly identify and track livestock in the event of an animal disease outbreak

(link) [New York Times]

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