Update

Wednesday, March 29. 2006

It looks to me like more and more people are waking up to the threat Nais means to us all. In Alabama a candidate for Governor is speaking out against NAIS and in Tennessee a lawmaker is fighting the Governor and administration to stop NAIS and go with the more sensible metal tag herd ID. This would be like the present Bangs tag and identify a cow to a herd. New herd, add another tag. Easy, no muss, no fuss. Traceable if necessary for BSE or any other disease.

The problem with this idea in most people's minds? It's not "high-tech." It's a simple idea all ready in use which could be adapted at low cost for herd ID. The right solution for the right problem.

An ear tag never stopped a disease, but it sure brings interesting ideas to the front burner.

Posted by Sarpy Sam in Action Efforts at 18:09 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I REALLY like the small metal tag idea. (This is the first I heard it suggested.) Cheap, readable, already being done and working just fine. You can't sell a cow in NY without one of those little things anyhow.
We used to buy numbered, colored metal tags just as you suggest for our cows as well, in case they lost their big plastic tags, which they do with predictable regularity.

#1 Marianne (Homepage) on 2006-03-30 02:24 (Reply)

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