One conversation we had before and after our free screening of The Future of Food earlier this month centered on what is called the National Animal Identification System, or NAIS. Once again in the name of "national security", the U.S government is calling for the "voluntary" embedding of tracking and information chip technology into livestock.
Farmers are not happy about it. It is expensive to implement, they say--and it also has major implications for the protection of their privacy. More and more farmers are resisting NAIS, yet there is little coverage about this very important story in either the High Country or national media outlets. Why is that, do you suppose?
Check out this very interesting report from CBN News via ABTV (Canada, not Pat Robertson's network) about some farmers in Michigan and Wisconsin who are struggling with this issue:
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