But is it the final “final rule”?
For years, the government has been trying to lay down animal identification and transport rules that would have imposed a particular burden on the small farmer and favoring Big Ag. But now it does appear that most of the burdensome regulations have been stripped out of the final rule thanks to the work of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Farm.
What’s left is a requirement that animals shipped across state lines must be accompanied by identification and health papers…something we already do….but no longer is the government demanding premises registration and a report every time we move a cow from one pasture to another. They really wanted to do that!
Being somewhat skeptical that a bureaucrat ever gives up grabbing more power, we neverthless pass along the news released from the Defense Fund celebrating the victory.