Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) is leading the fight to save family farms and individuals from expensive and unnecessary government regulation. Help us protect our food supply and our liberties!The National Animal Identification System ("NAIS") posed a serious threat to all farmers, ranchers, livestock owners, and companion-animal owners, whether they are organic or conventional, small or large, involved with animals for business or for pleasure. It would have required every person with even one horse, cow, chicken, pig, goat, sheep, or virtually any other livestock animal on their premises to register their homes and property into a database and subject their property and animals to government surveillance. ...

Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has stated that it is dropping the original plans for NAIS, Big Ag and Big Tech continue to push for the program at both the federal and state levels.

The NAIS does not distinguish between large corporate factory farms and the smallest family farm, pleasure horse owner, or the grandmother with a few laying hens. The NAIS will drive small and medium-size farmers and ranchers out of business, increasing the consolidation of our food supply into the hands of a few large, multinational corporations. The government is wasting your taxpayer dollars on a program that will lead to increased food prices and decreased quality. ...

via Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance | Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance.

I was just discussing the idea of buying some egg laying chickens this evening.  I'd sure like the government to go stick it's regulatory nose somewhere else than up my chickens, if I ever do get some.