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[nnbreeder]

Nationwide. Like I said all I have heard about is the cattle market. All cattle in the US as of July 15 will be grandfathered in as "born in the US" and they will go from there. All big sale barns already have the equipment for reading tags in place and the extra office help to do the paperwork. A state can not pass a law that supercedes Federal law, They can make a law stricter but not more lenient.

 

[nnbreeder]

Ok here's the rub, NAIS is still being touted as a voluntary program. COOL on the other hand is mandatory as of Sept. 30 But the arm that does the tracing and certification for COOL is NAIS so in order to sell commodites in the market through COOL you also must participate in NAIS. Anyone see the movie Catch 22? Sure reminds me a lot about this. Here is the latest article about COOL from the USDA. http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams...opNav=Newsroom&leftNav=&rightNav1=&rightNav2=

 

[KellyGwen]

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Anyway, that's what I think!

 

[gumpsgirl]

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So is this COOL just an animal/meat country of origin labeling program or a microchipping program like the NAIS wants us to do to our animals?

 

[nnbreeder]

NAIS is the paperwork side of the COOL program. So that when you pick up a package of meat or any other grown commodity in the US or worldwide and it states made in the USA it was truely grown or raised here and somewhere there is the paperwork to prove it. This entire mess started with Country of Origin Labeling many years ago. NAIS was set up in response for the need to track animal birth's and where they were throughout the process before slaughter. Then someone got the idea to use NAIS for a 48 hour disease traceback. It's really a, Hmmmmm, no family friendly words to describe this, well it's a mess. The two programs are tightly intertwined as each supports the other.