fugitive247/animals

I hope my response gets added. If not, here it is:

This is absolutely ludicrous and scary at the same time. Today it's "voluntary" participation geared towards bovine/equine species. My family and most of our close local friends are all homesteaders in a rural part of Arkansas. Not only do we maintain modest ammounts of various livestock for our families, many of us hunt, trap and fish. Of couse the latter activites are regulated by their own govermental authorities.

Let's look at those wildlife-as-food regulations under the NAIS microscope. The deer, rabbits, wild turkeys and other creatures that walk or fly on my 30 acres are not capable of realistically being entered into a database until after they've been killed. My family fully intends to consume that which our land produces, or which resides upon it naturally. What's to prevent the governmental overlords to stress us further by legislating that the creatures known to inhabit our property be similarly documented as well before their death, regardless of the manner of the creature's demise? Same applies to births and migration patterns of species within our area. Pre-chip/tag a deer or bunny? How about a fish? I think not!

Then there's the very real possibility that widespread acceptance of such technologies can conceivably pave the way for the implementation of mandatory RFID tracking of all private citizens. Legislate to LoJack me or mine? Over my cold, dead body...