Re: NAIS: Animal Tracking Reviewed

Posted by RodInNS on November 02, 2006 at 18:46:38 from (142.177.9.88):

In Reply to: Re: NAIS: Animal Tracking Reviewed posted by JK-NY on November 02, 2006 at 17:37:54:

The system has been trotted out on display here recently with BSE cases. They find a new case somewhere. All the progeny are rounded up from all points yonder, sent to the furnace, and the system is shown to work. It does have it's points for tracing things. The problem is that that's not what they want to trace....
A few months ago we get a knock on the door one morning at breakfast. It's an inspector from Agriculture and Agrifood Canada. He's got a problem. He's tracing a trailer load of bob calves. Our calf was one of 80 on a load. Our calf was sold at an auction a few weeks before. He's here to actually verify that we had shipped the calf, what we were paid and so on. Seems our calf sold for 180 bucks or something at the local sale; was sold to a drover. Drover buys 79 other calves at that sale. All those calves proceed to another sale the next day in another province. Our calf plum disappears from the face of the earth.... However... the drover still arives with 80 calves at this sale. Except one has a local tag... Local calves bring a lot more money because they haven't spent the best part of 2 days on a truck. Ours was a "good" calf. Seems he got new jewlry and sold for 300+ the next day. Needless to say the drover has some explaining to do as to where he disposed of that calf, where he acquired this one, and so on. He's got some major fines coming to him. All the damn inspector could glow about was that he figured it out. He found the calf. The system worked. This man drove 4000 miles across the country, stayed in untold motels as he interview the operators of 80 farms spread over 3 or 4 provinces. Imagine what he spent. He caught the crook. Some poor bugger trying to make a living, and he saw a chance to make a few bucks... and took it. That's what this damn system is all about. Control.

As far as the small part timers are concerned... they're just about gone now. They're not making anything. Prices have been in the tank since BSE hit. They can't afford to keep doing it, and now the government just wants more. These tags alone are costing 5 bucks a head now. Sheep are heading down the same road. The tags cost the same, and that's a far greater percentage of what we're getting for one of them than a cow. It's not just the small part timers that are getting disgusted. I've talked to some larger operators arond here who've got millions tied up in their operations, and they're up against it in much the same way. At one time they were big, and they made the rules. That's not the case anymore. These things are all about control, control, control, and NOBODY will gain any real benifit. That's the sad part.

Rod

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