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Discussion: Animal Identification Systems in North America: Achievements and Future Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Ronald D. Knutson
Ronald D. Knutson*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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Abstract

Although Canada has developed an effective animal identification system, and the provinces are progressing toward a system that has full traceback capabilities, the U.S. and Mexico have made little or no progress. Contemporary U.S. proposals for state initiatives will not work. In the meantime, the U.S. livestock industry will continue to lose markets for its products and has little to no basis for complaining about lost sales and the lack of open markets. Also indentified are relevant economic and political principles that both underlie animal identification systems and the failure to make positive steps forward toward establishing a North American animal identification system.

Keywords

animal identification (ID)zoonoseslivestock diseasesNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)F13H41I19
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , August 2010 , pp. 571 - 574
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2010

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