Provision tucked inside massive omnibus spending bill could spell the end of small ranchers in the US
A one paragraph provision snuck into the recently-passed omnibus spending bill will add electronic tagging requirement...

By lawenforcementtoday.com

WASHINGTON, DC— Many people have long warned about items hidden inside 1,000-plus page omnibus spending bills. The devil is in the details.

ZeroHedge reports that a provision in the recently passed spending bill in Congress directs $15 million to electronic livestock tracking, stoking fears that the ever-radical government could weaponize this system to limit beef consumption, long a dream of environmental extremists.
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Shad Sullivan, a cattle rancher, told the outlet that he believes the new electronic tags will end small ranchers in the United States.
“They are going to use it as a taxing mechanism to eventually control the livestock,” Sullivan said. “In the European Union, they used these measures under the guise of climate change lies to limit the cattle supply and if they do that here, it will destroy our industry.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) echoed Sullivan's concerns. Massie owns livestock and believes the provision could lead to the erosion of the cattle industry.
“The left wants to ban cattle, and before you can ban anything, you need a registry, you need to know where it’s at and who owns it, and that’s why they want to tag cattle,” Massie said in a post on X. “We’ve seen it happen in Europe. Because you know, protecting “democracy” just like they want to do by making Americans register their guns and ammunition, all a precursor towards the eventual confiscation leftists dream of.
Previously, Massie wrote that if this provision was passed, it “will be used by the GREEN agenda to limit beef production, and by the corporate meat oligopoly to DOMINATE small ranchers.”
According to the information contained within the Omnibus bill, passed with some Republican support on March 22 and touted by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), it directs $15 million to “related infrastructure” to begin the tagging program.

The provision reads:
“The agreement directs the Department to continue to provide the tag and related infrastructure needed to comply with the Federal Animal Disease Traceability rule, including no less than $15,000,000 for electronic identification (EID) tags and related infrastructure needed for stakeholders to comply with the proposed rule, ‘Use of Electronic Identification Eartags as Official Identification in Cattle and Bison’ should that rule be finalized.”