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Article: Brewer, Gobi target livestock data.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2007
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Byline: Mary Jo Hill
BOSTON - A federal program to track livestock is being targeted by proposed state legislation that would keep Massachusetts from sending data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
State Sen. Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre, and state Rep. Anne M. Gobi, D-Spencer, recently filed the legislation, which also requires the state Department of Agricultural Resources to withdraw any applications for funding for the National Animal Identification System.
And the state, which already has sent some information to the federal government about the location of local livestock, would have to notify owners of those animals about how they can ...