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Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Legal Defense Fund Files Suit to Stop Animal ID Program
August 2nd, 2008
Attorneys for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund today filed suit in the U.S. District Court - District of Columbia to stop the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) from implementing the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), a plan to electronically track every livestock animal in the country. The MDA has implemented the first two stages of NAIS - property registration and animal identification - for all cattle and farmers across the state as part of a mandatory bovine tuberculosis disease control program required by a grant from the USDA. The suit asks the court to issue an...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-08-02)
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