<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2005/s1529007.htm">Livestock ID system not working, says agent</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The largest cattle agent at the biggest saleyards in Australia says the National Livestock Identification System equipment is not up to scratch and needs to be replaced.<br />n<br />nIt has been five months since Queensland's Roma saleyards spent $300,000 upgrading their facilities to cope with the new electronic ID system .<br />n<br />nElders agent Mick Connell says the equipment is not scanning tags properly and it is taking up to a third longer to process cattle.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThe <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> keeps holding the Australia system up to us for <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>. More and more I read and see on TV where the Australia system is broke and needs fixed. So, the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is going to saddle us with a broken system just to make the meat packers happy and enslave the farmers and ranchers. How lucky we all are.<br />n<br />n<b>I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed; the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! Frederick Douglas</b>