The USDA is proposing a rule to mandate electronic livestock identification to track cattle crossing state lines. The agency claims it will help with animal health, but it doesn’t. Mandatory electronic animal identification does not address food safety or animal disease concerns, but instead, unreasonably burdens farmers and ranchers.
The real reason for mandatory electronic animal identification is to satisfy monopolistic meatpacker interests to increase their exports markets, their profits, and their control of the U.S. cattle industry.
Why is this important?
Mandatory electronic animal identification is a step in the wrong direction, especially at a time when the negative impacts of corporate consolidation of our food supply are becoming ever clearer, with shortages and skyrocketing prices.
Unintended Negative Consequences:
- Harming the economic viability of independent cattle producers.
- Reducing the security and resiliency of our food supply.
Please join us in telling USDA "No!" to mandatory electronic animal ID. Sign your name -- as an organization, farm, or individual -- to our letter to USDA by filling out the form below.
You can read the letter on our website , and then come back to this page to fill out the form to sign on. 