Sopranette said:
In North Carolina, the government wants to make it mandatory for all livestock to be microchiped by 2009. "To track the spread of disease" is the explanation. Not just farmers, either. Anyone with just one cow or goat is also subject to this coming law. It is still true all pets adopted from the pound must be microchiped. Call it a conspiracy, it's still a frightening prospect for all of us. Who's next; military, convicts, children?
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Sopranette
Point is, Sopranette, that someone's or some group's desire does not equal a legislative statute or a mandate. Please don't just say "the government wants to make it mandatory," for the Legislature of that state could certainly enact such legislation, that this be mandatory, if it passed court muster, assuming it would be challenged. Removing this from the actual reality of events into someone's 'projection' of 'what could be', is hardly concrete 'fact'.
If there is any such movement ongoing, I am not aware of it. But I think I would have gotten some wind of this, were it anything beyond somethng out of a rumor mill.
I will grant that there are suggestions that children be microchip implanted 'out there'. I will also grant that there are localities where 'pound animals' are subject to certain restrictions before they can be adopted. I am not sure that all must have microchips, in KY, but I do believe they have this regulation, and others in certain locations.
Spaying, neutering, certain vaccinations, etc., are required in some counties, here in KY. Even this is not uniform, for the 'regulations' are more stringent in the large 'urban counties', such as Fayette Co. (Pop. 300K) than they are in my own largely rural home Co. (Pop. 17K). And the local Fiscal Court (Co. Government) can adopt some regulations beyond what are state proscribed (or prohibited), as well, due to local conditions.
I just believe some are attempting to paint a 'Mona Lisa' masterpiece with a 6" wide 'whitewash' brush, on a 3'X4' canvas, here. It may 'play' good, to the crowd, but it is still not a very accurate portrayal of events.
Ed