H.R.2301 - Livestock Identification and Marketing Opportunities Act Sponsor: Steve King / 110th Congress

Title
110th Congress - To establish a Livestock Identification Board to create and implement a national livestock identification system.
Summary
To establish a Livestock Identification Board to create and implement a national livestock identification system. (by MAPLight.org)
Status
The bill has been introduced.

Customize

Customize the interests supporting and opposing this bill

To remove an interest, click the Remove button next to its name below this box.

To add an interest, choose one from this list:

To add an interest, click Support or Oppose.

You can share your customized pages with other people by sending them the URL for pages about this bill. Other MAPLight.org users will not see your customizations unless they use the URL you send them. To save your customizations for your next visit, create a free New Account, then Sign In.

Done

Interests who did want this bill to become law included these interests and specific groups:

Interests who did not want this bill to become law included these interests and specific groups:

(None found)

Contribution data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org)

Comments RSS feed

Identification System To Trace Animal Disease by Maya Perelman, Aug 15, 2008 (7:52am)

This bill calling for mandatory national livestock identification seems pretty controversial, given that a bill calling for precisely the opposite (H.R. 1018: Prohibiting Mandatory Animal Identification) is also on the table for discussion. But as far as consumer safety is concerned, this bill is critically important in its plan for animal disease control; under the bill, the livestock ID system must be capable of tracking all livestock “from the time of the first movement from its original premise to the time of slaughter…in less than 48 hours” so that the authorities can trace back within hours of a diagnosis of animal disease outbreak.

Reply to this comment
Reply to this comment close
[ Tags ]
[ Tags ] close
[ Spam ]
[ Spam ] close