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Podcast: Wise Traditions
Episode: RFID: A Livestock Surveillance System Poses a Threat to Food Freedom with John Moody
Description: Radio Frequency ID (or RFID) has been presented as something of a modern-day branding system, allowing for the identification of cattle and other livestock on farms across the U.S. That sounds benign enough…until you realize that RFID is actually a livestock surveillance system that poses a threat to our farmers' rights to raise their animals without government interference and may impinge on the free market relationship between farmers and consumers. John Moody, co-founder of the Rogue Food conferences, explains today exactly what's at stake when it comes to legislation in the works for RFID (radio fr...