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Cattle farmer Darvin Bentlage on his farm near Golden City, Missouri. His livestock are tagged with metal and plastic tags, and he is opposed to being forced to use electronic identification chips instead.
Using electronic tags to track livestock is widespread in Europe. Proponents say it helps prevent and contain food-borne illnesses, but the idea is finding a mixed and often chilly reception in the United States.
Radio frequency identification, or RFID tags, can be put on an animal’s ear similar to the metal identification clips currently used to identify animals and track them for inventory and health purposes.
Darvin Bentlage
On Tuesday, February 23, Tom Vilsack was confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, again.
In 2011, I helped write an op-ed called “What a good President would do that would really help family farmers.” It stemmed from President Obama’s and then Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack’s unsuccessful attempt to level the playing field and increase competition in agriculture. We argued that this failure not only resulted in increased corporate control of our commodity markets and food system, but also led to a loss of hope in the “democratic process” for rural Missourians and rural Americans.
Well, now, President Biden it’s your turn. We need a good president, and there’s a lot at risk.