Animal ID Program Loses Steam
US - Days after the United States recorded its first case of mad cow disease, then-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman promised to speed development of a system for tracking the nation's livestock
8 October 2007
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The idea was to enable investigators to trace the whereabouts and history of any animal within 48 hours of a disease outbreak.
Nearly four years later, that system is still on paper.
And what's on paper, at least in terms of a revised plan that the Bush administration is due to release soon, seems to bear less and less resemblance to the system Veneman was talking about.
Could animal identification be headed the way of Social Security reform?
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., says he has given up on the program until there is a new administration. Peterson once introduced legislation to make animal ID mandatory.
"We have our head in the sand if we think we can get by without having one," he said.
Source: DesMoinesRegister
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