4-10 IAN Big Brother

 Voice of Idaho’s Cattle Industry aims to Limit Unnecessary Government Regulations. Recently, the Idaho Cattle Association (ICA) issued comments on behalf of their more than 700 members, announcing their distaste for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule pertaining to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) under Section 308.Their proposal requires that any operation meeting CAFO requirements must provide the EPA with this long list of information. Owner contact information, longitude and latitude, the location number and type of livestock, acreage of land, etc. etc. and all of this information would be placed on a searchable database on EPA’s website. So this is big brother to the max. Yes in a lot of ways it is. Some of the implications relate to the animal rights extremists who claimed responsibility for the arson of those 14 cattle trucks at the Harris Ranch feed yard in California. This would make attacks like those increasingly easy for those groups to do that. Plus if it is enacted under the Clean Water Act  then any operation who chooses not to comply would be subject to fines up to $37,500 I day under the Clean Water Act.