The United States Department of Agriculture is taking steps to set up a compulsory animal-tagging program. Every animal produced for commercial purpose on every American farm or ranch will have to be tagged with a computer chip. These chips will transmit a radio signal: responder chips. The Department of Agriculture will then be able to monitor the location of every beast.

Here is the official statement:

The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is a national program intended to identify specific animals in the United States and record their movement over their lifespans. It is being developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and State agencies -- in cooperation with industry -- to enable 48-hour traceback of the movements of any diseased or exposed animal. This will help to ensure rapid disease containment and maximum protection of America's animals.

This is being done in the name of animal health.

If any rancher thinks the IRS will not have access to this data base, he is terminally naive.

This has been in the works for over a year. It has received little attention.

If farmers do not organize immediately, this is a done deal. If Congress ignores it, this is a done deal.

The government will soon know where the entire U.S. food supply is. The government is already using space-based satellites to measure the crops of any farm in the country.

I hope the farm bloc is not asleep at the wheel on this one. I also hope this brief report of mine gets forewarded to every farmer in the country.

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