No Mandatory Animal ID

Farmers: Make animal ID voluntary

Even those who have different ideas on what provisions a new farm bill should contain were unified about one issue Monday at a House Agriculture Committee field hearing in Springfield.

Nobody wants to see mandatory animal identification --not the witnesses invited to testify about the 2007 Farm Bill and not the folks taking time off from their farms to attend the session in the E-Plex at the Missouri Entertainment and Events Center.

Farmers are unified on this issue, No Mandatory Animal ID. I am so glad to see this movement taking off across the US. More people are awake than I hoped would be. We need to keep beating the drum. Contact your Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and anybody that will listen. Keep Animal ID voluntary.

An ear tag never stopped a disease, but it appears to motivate the body politic.