Monday, March 17, 2025

REP. HARRIET HAGEMAN: By August of 2023, [Ireland was issued] an order that they had to slaughter 41,000 head of cattle, not because of a disease outbreak, but because of global warming.

So I come from, as I said, a ranching community.  I grew up on a ranch.  The USDA for several years has been trying to force our cattle and bison producers to use what are called RFID or EID ear tags, electronic identification ear tags.  They want to chip them all.  And I've been fighting against this, and they say it's for disease traceability.  If there's a brucellosis outbreak or hoof and mouth disease, we've got to know that immediately so we can isolate that animal.  We have the very best disease traceability program anywhere in the world in the United States.  It's worked beautifully for hundreds of years.  It's extremely effective.  We are able to isolate the animals immediately if there's an issue, despite the fact, and in addition to which we have the healthiest turds of anywhere in the world.  So you look at all of that, and so you say, okay, what is this really about?  And then you start looking at the countries that have implemented this.  Ireland implemented it in early 2022.  By August of 2023, they were issuing an order that they had to slaughter 41,000 head of cattle, not because of a disease outbreak, but because of global warming.  In the Netherlands, they adopted . . . excuse me, Denmark, they adopted an EID mandate, and last year they imposed a $100 a head tax on every single head of cattle in the country, not because of a disease outbreak, because of global warming.  So what you start seeing is how they use this information.  This is a $1.2 to $1.9 billion dollar tax on the cattle industry if it's actually implemented 100%. 

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