Livestock tracing bill could be end of family farms, ranches

My Examiner column today studies a bill to mandate a federal program of animal identification, and the threat this program poses to smaller ranchers.

Mandatory animal tagging and tracking follows a pattern we’ve seen before in many consumer-safety laws: Politicians, claiming to safeguard the people and spurred by self-proclaimed consumer-protection groups, advance regulation favored by industry giants who understand that the regulations’ burden may crush smaller competitors.

Read the whole thing here.