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NAIS tracking would hurt smaller farmers, help CAFOs, without public health benefit
The National Animal Identification System, which would mandate all livestock to be tagged and tracked, presents fixed costs for farmers, regardless of farm size. This means a disproportionately larger burden for small farmers, who have fewer animals on which to spread the cost. It’s likely even to eliminate the viability of backyard farming altogether.
Op-ed contributor and farmer Shannon Hayes says of the proposed legislation, “The burden for a program that would safeguard agribusiness interests would be disproportionately shouldered by small farmers, rural families and consumers of locally produced food. Worse yet, that burden would force many rural Americans to lose our way of life.” Full story: The New York Times
