Animal ID across the pond.

 Brits have given up on tagging people, but they're still going after sheep. Hilary Benn, the UK's secretary of agriculture, has been getting flack from shepherds who say the cost of tags would be a significant expense to them. Sheep tagging is already in wide use in other EU countries, especially Spain and Italy, so the British sheep producers aren't getting a lot of sympathy from their neighbors on the continent.

   Sounds kind or like our NAIS issue currently roiling the waters in the U.S. There's an article about the animal ID in the current issue of The Economist. The article is here

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13962582

    The Humane Society of the U.S. has been waging a campaign against farming operations that depend on animal confinement. Is the HSUS engaged in an evil conspiracy to drive family farmers out of business, or are they a reasonable organization interested in working with rather than against farmers? You can decide for yourself after reading an interview by Lancaster Farming correspondent Andrew Jenner. His interviewee was Paul Shapiro, senior director of the HSUS Factory Farming Campaign. Jenner's report appears in the Lancaster Farming issue due in your mailbox Saturday.

    No stupid people were injured in the making of this video.
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