Well, I have to say, that is aparently what has happend, as each group was made aware, comment after comment were published, all identical to their group\'s \"Blue-Print\" letter, intermixed with a few \"origional coments\" and several \"Job Aplications\", by far the largest group of coments is from the FSA offices and folks supporting them, and sadly their letters were not in opposition to the program, bur rather a plea to let them handle the transitions!!
What I thought was being asked for were suggestions and examples as to how we handle identifucation and notification issues now?? And although flawed, certainly no need exhists for further encomberances.
In NY we alfready have flock/herd id#\'s issured anytime we test or vaccinate for certain diseases, like rabies and Brucelosis. The individual identification has been up to the farmer to provice, except in certain instances such as Pullorum testing and Brucellosis vaccination. With Pullorum testing it is free, and they provide bands, unless you already have the birds banded, but with Brucelosis viccination in cattle, no matter what id system you use, a manditory State ear tag is also attached.
I am assuming that sinse we have to provide our Pullorum certificates to show, that the show secretary has a list of who plans to be showing at each show, and after the show, the show report should have a complete list of who did come, so for disease notification I would assume they could just use the show list , coupled by the show report to get names and addresses of flocks potentialy exposed to a certain disease.
To tell you the truth, I am mortified to find that some stated do not require individual identification and some do not even require testing.
And as mentiond before, No one even checks to see if your dog has his shots and papers up-to-date when you travel accross the usa..even though it is the law..there is the question of just who enforces it??
So while Big-Brother wants to Police us, if we just come up with better ways to Police ourselves, we could claime we don\'t need any further \"asistance\" frome Uncle sam!!