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Over
the past couple of years, the OCA has reported on the National
Animal Identification System (NAIS), a set of controversial,
mandatory regulations the U.S. federal government claims to
have abandoned to the states, but in fact is still pushing,
specifically, in the 2007 Farm Bill. NAIS would require that
all farmers and farm animal owners implant their animals with
a computer chip, even those who just own a single cow, horse,
chicken or other farm animal. Last week, the USDA approved
the use of two new types of chips for the NAIS program. These
same chips have already been planted in millions of pets and
marketed to pet owners as an ID device to help find lost pets.
Increasingly, these same chips are being marketed and implanted
into humans. Evidence has now surfaced that a significant
number of studies done in the 1990s revealed that lab animals
implanted with the devices developed tumors. When the FDA
approved the use of the chips for human implanting, these
reports were never made public. In an interview with a retired
toxicologic pathologist who studied the chips for Dow Chemical,"The
transponders were the cause of the tumors."
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