Livestock passports were introduced into law in 1996 it took many years for them to be implemented into any kind of reasonable electronic tracking system, I worked, on a consultancy basis, with some old colleagues in Scotland on part of the implementation of the livestock passports system around 2000-2003 sadly the organisation we were working for was shut down before completion of the project, although many aspects were implemented.Originally Posted by Win2Win
Cows are easy to trace, obviously the writer has no intelligence on how rural life works.... all cows, sheep, etc used for food have always had it's breeding stock recording to prevent constant inbred animals getting into the food chain.
Maybe the letter should have gone to Gordon Brown instead, as he's the one that broke everything, and had 13 years to adjust things so they worked out fine.
The fundamental problem was that many farmers records were very sketchy as the poor guys had little time to do all the tracking that the government enforced on them, they had a hard enough time just trying to run their own business without all the additional overheads imposed on them by regulation.
For a long time it has been questionable whether animals were being tracked correctly although I suspect they are now.
