Vermont Today
Published December 30, 2007
By Paula Routly
Original Article Here
Finally, a new slaughterhouse opens, and Carl Cushing and family get all the credit

Promoters of national livestock ID plan shift to focus on benefits of global traceability

The New Farm
11/16/7
By Amy Shollenberger
Original Article Here

Resistance to NAIS as integrated mega-database continues as smaller farmers question its cost, benefits and risks compared to improving livestock health at the farm level.

Organic Farmer Plucks Her Thanksgiving Turkeys

Women's eNews
Run Date: 11/11/07
By Melinda Tuhus
WeNews correspondent
Original Article Here

Animal Tagging Plan Put On Back Burner

10/08/2007
Bill Bishop
Daily Yonder
Article Here

Letter to the Editor: Disease Response Methods are Overkill

October 18, 2007
Mike Eastman
Addison, Vermont

Brasher: Animal ID program loses steam

USDA budget for '08 doesn't allocate even a dime for it
WASHINGTON FARM REPORT
By PHILIP BRASHER
REGISTER WASHINGTON BUREAU
October 7, 2007
Original Article Here

Farmers slow to sign up for animal ID program

VPR
Thursday September 20, 2007
Original Story Here

Speak Your Piece: Government Requires Children to Play 'Tag'

Daily Yonder
Lee Pitts
10/3/7
Original Article Here

Speak Your Piece: Tag EVERY Animal?

by Sharon Zecchinelli
Daily Yonder
9/24/07
Original Article Here

FMD likely came from cracked drain pipe

Brownfield
Friday, September 7, 2007
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Poultry - House and Senate Ag Committees 4/4/7 Hearing on 522

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GAO report on NAIS weaknesses

The Government Accountability Office released a report Thursday identifying weaknesses in USDA's plan to implement a national animal identification system.
Original Story Here
The Report (pdf)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Meat and Poultry who raises it, sells it, buys it and cooks it,By
JULIA LLOYD WRIGHT
Contributing Writer
Weathersfield, July 28, 2007
Claremont New Hampshire Eagle Times

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Meat and Poultry who raises it, sells it, buys it and cooks it,By
JULIA LLOYD WRIGHT
Contributing Writer
Weathersfield, July 28, 2007
Claremont New Hampshire Eagle Times

Penn State Equine Survey to Gather Information on Micro-chipping

PA Farm News

July 23, 2007

Story at:
http://www.pafarmnews.com/Articles/2007/070723_PSU_microchipping.htm

Localvores lobby support for 'farm viability bill'

THE VALLEY REPORTER
04/12/2007
By Erin Post
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Farms win support from lawmakers

Times Argus
Article published Mar 23, 2007

Bill would allow restaurants to serve uninspected poultry

By Terri Hallenbeck
Burlington Free Press Staff Writer
March 23, 2007

Uninspected Chicken Meat on the Menu?

Montpelier, Vermont
WCAX-Ch3 News
March 29, 2007

Understanding the Poultry Processing Provision for Bill H522

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Bird flu is linked to global trade in poultry Migrating birds no longer seen as culprit in outbreaks

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By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Published: February 12, 2007

Open Letter from the Liberty Ark Steering Committee:

We admire Mary Zanoni for her early whistle-blowing on NAIS...

Does a Secret Pro-Corporate Agenda Intend to Co-opt the Anti-NAIS Movement?

An Open Letter to the NAIS Opposition Community
by
Mary Zanoni
P.O. Box 501
Canton, New York 13617
315-386-3199
mlz@slic.com

Privacy concerns prompt bill aimed at tracking livestock

http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO38672/

Shift to voluntary animal ID program doesn't appease critics

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/12/04/shift_to_voluntary_animal_id_program_doesnt_appease_critics/
By Lisa Rathke, Associated Press Writer
December 4, 2006

Cattleman says ID is not about disease traceback

High Plains Journal-Letter to the Editor
Wednesday – October 4, 2006
By R-CALF/ICI Member Monte Akers

SURVEY FROM AGENCY OF AGRICULTURE

Why registering farms with the state won't work

September 3, 2006
By ANNETTE SMITH

Rural Vermont's Comments on Premises Registration

August 31, 2006

State Derails Farm Registration Program

Times Argus
By Louis Porter-VT Press Bureau
Article published Aug 18, 2006

FARM REGISTRATION PROPOSAL ON HOLD

Burlington Free Press
Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2006
By Nancy Remsen-Staff Writer

State backs off on farm ID proposal

Article published Aug 16, 2006
Rutland Herald

Farm ID Plan Put on Hold

By CATE LECUYER, Reformer Staff
Brattleboro Reformer
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Vermont To Abandon Plan for Premises Registration

Channel 3 NEWS
August 15, 2006
Williston, Vermont
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Vt. negs farm ID program

Wednesday, August 16
Bennington Banner
by LISA RATHKE, Associated Press Writer

Premises Registration Proposal Put On Hold

Decision Made In Wake Of Concerns Over Confidentiality
BY JACOB L. GRANT, Staff Writer

IN VERMONT, FARMERS BUCK REGISTRATION EFFORTS

from the August 15, 2006 edition
The Christian Science Monitor
By Matt Bradley
BRATTLEBORO, VT.

Vermont Puts on Hold Plan to Register Farms to Monitor Disease Outbreaks

Burlington Free Press
Published: Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Premises Registration Proposal On Hold

Vermont Agency of Agriculture
For Immediate Release
Tuesday August 15, 2006

Farm IDs: A Kinder, Gentler Gov't, or Orwell's '84?

By Dave Mance III
Bennington Banner
Friday, August 11

SYMINGTON'S TO-DO LIST

http://www.addisonindependent.com/?q=node/193

Symington's To-Do List
Submitted by Addison Independent
Thu, August 3, 2006 13:39.

By JOHN FLOWERS

MONTPELIER — Election day is still three months away, but that hasn't kept Vermont House Speaker Gaye Symington from drafting a 2007 legislative "to-do" list that includes re-examining Vermont's use of the property tax; devising a long-range energy plan; helping farmers; and implementing health care reform measures.