Apocalyptic Hope ...........Pets pg.2 ......... Page 3 ..........Bio-Thermo (animals) .............. All VeriChip articles

Translation http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en Just cut and paste our url into their language box

Digital Angel : Implanted RFID microchips for Animals
Categories: Pg. 1. Scanners/ Standardization; NAIS Livestock; Plants: APHIS ; Health ; BioThermo Chips, LifeChip (R) ( Race Horses);
Pg. 2 Articles; AVID, and e.Tag, Global VetLink
Pg. 3 Fowls, Chickens, Turkeys; Vaccine and Drugs; Cervid ( animals in the wild, Elk, Deer ); , Countries, Fish, Dogs, Pets ; Daploma, Datamars,
Minnesota Technology; GPS Collars. VeriPrime, drug-delivery systems, sensors.

Introduction:
Digital Angel uses 134.2 kHz Full Duplex (FDX) microchips in our RFID products. FDX technology provides reliable read distance and functionality on the farm and in the challenging environments of food processing facilities. All of Digital Angel's RFID products meet ISO 11784 and 11785 guidelines for animal identification.
DA Originally : Destron Fearing http://www.destronfearing.com/rfid.htm

MANDATORY tracking of animals due to Mad Cow disease ( will people be next ?)
GPS ( Global Positioning System) for PLD (Personal Location Device) EXTERNAL
Digital Angel Corporation develops and deploys sensor and communications technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value, mobile assets. Applications for the Company's products include identification and monitoring of pets, fish and livestock through its patented implantable microchips; location tracking and message monitoring of vehicles and aircraft in remote locations through systems that integrate GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications; and monitoring of asset conditions such as temperature and movement, through advanced miniature sensors.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040226/lath037_1.html

From tracking animals to tracking man -- Derry Brownfield
http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield47.htm

Digital Angel certainly is in the beast (ie., livestock) marking business in a big way.  And now they want to take this beast marking technology and use it on people.....

"The expansion of the application from an  animal to a person was relatively simple to patent-legally. 
This transition is supported by evolutionist- biology, where  a human being is classified as a higher mammal,  and thus the problem is solved.
Don Small, vice-president of Hughes Identification Devices stated,
" Let's  define an animal as a mammal, and that settles it."
The rest of the Article --Quoted from article by Stephan Fuchs:
Die große Welt der kleinen Chips
http://www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_g/fux/ver_03-10_1.htm

Flow Chart of Digital Angel- Applied Digital Systems and assisting Companies
Drafted by Stephan Fuchs of Media House
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/chart.html

Secretary of Agriculture -- Dec. 2, 2004
President Bush will nominate Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns to be the next U.S. agriculture secretary, farm industry and administration sources said on Thursday. Johanns, 54, is a Republican now serving his second term as governor.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=6979823

Lasse Nordfjeld -- global animal application for Digital Angel
In addition, Kevin McGrath said that Lasse Nordfjeld, Chief Executive Officer of DSD, who is considered to be one of Europe's leaders in the development of livestock tagging systems, will assume the leadership role in building Digital Angel's global animal applications business.
Locus http://www.locustechnology.com/

From the Newswire ; fair educational use

Just as NAIS is for animals , so will VeriChip be for citizens of planet Earth -- Oct. 3, 2007 Susana Schwartz
' We need to retain the freedoms we are losing in the name of "freedom."
"The centralization of data about our animals and food supply, as well as our buying habits and travel patterns, will only open us up to illicit sources. Companies like Microsoft and entities like the federal government are not very proficient at managing and protecting the data they already have at their disposal. Localization, or the proliferation of federated, local pools of data are more difficult to infiltrate or abuse, and they do a lot more to protect our freedoms and privacies as individuals entitled to the protections of the Constitution. The right to anonymity should also be inherent. I will not implant metal and glass transponders in my person, or that of my children or animals. "
This will price me and others out of the business, and it will also take away the freedoms we are supposed to have to travel and move as we wish without labels or possibility of being "tracked."
http://www.hpj.com/archives/2007/oct07/oct1/Reader-NAISistroubling.cfm

NAIS and animal disease-- April 5, 2008
http://www.rfidsolutionsonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B35D1B133-6C74-4236-97A2-C8926D17CC49%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines

Amish protest "mark of the beast" for animals -- April 27, 2007 ... "premise ID " law
While meeting in an auction barn on Irish Ridge near Cashton, a number of Amish producers cited specific Bible passages (Revelations chapter 13, verse 7 and chapter 19, verse 20) that refer to buying and selling of animals that are numbered and consider it the "mark of the beast." And for some producers it comes down to some strongly held beliefs versus continuing with their livelihood.
As one producer put it, "Look at all the electronic gadgets in the world, have they done more good for the American family or have they done more evil?"

as of May 1 [ 2007 ] it will not be possible for any dairy producer to renew their dairy license without a premise identification number.

"Does the fact that many of you were unaware you even had the number give you a clean conscious religiously on this?" asked Kapanke.
http://www.vernonbroadcaster.com/articles/2007/04/18/news/00lead.txt

Comment from John Sherrer
Leave the Amish alone! We should ALL strive for Rugged Individualism, and to live and let others live as they see fit without harming a hair of another. Anyone who would believe the the advocates of NAIS are for our "own good" are very naive indeed. NAIS is for the benefit of corporate businesses and none else. The arrogance on the part of the USDA is appalling and infuriating! Leave the Amish alone! They are among the richest people left on earth -- far more rich than the stuffy Donald Trumps when it comes to the gifts of life that really matter. They help add color and individualism to this increasingly bland nation filled with sterile strip malls, Walmarts and McDonalds. Long Live the Amish and small farmers -- it is THEM that made our country so admirable and the envy of the world not so long ago.

Comment 177348634
"Like the branding of the Jews in WWII Germany, the enumeration of People and their Chattle is the sign of a Fascist, Totalitarian Government. What is hoped to be gained by controlling diseases which are already being controlled by other, less intrusive means? What is to be gained by protecting us from "terrorism" if our own government become the terrorists? The state goons in charge of implementing NAIS are criminals violating laws while trying to bolster numbers. The Amish should withdraw from the dairy who signed them up against their will. It's criminal. What idiot thought that would work? If you have a moral and ethical objection to something then you are in the right. Period. If you cannot stand for your values--whatever they are--and have a firm conviction than you are just another one of the faceless, soulless sheeple. American is full of that animal--they are the ones who need to be tagged and tracked as a threat to freedom and the Constitution. Let the disease infested industrial food complex--e. coli 0157 beef, salmonella peanut butter, tapeworm Mexican pork--find their own way out of the mess they've created by charging more to serve us less and less quality which is greatly compromised. We don't need they're form of food security or tracking. A local food system where buyers know producers and the food is never more than a few days or hours old and does not travel 2000 miles, but less than 500, is the only thing to provide bio, food security and disease outbreak prevention. With every farm enumerated, and all livestock tallied, at the first hint of chicken sniffles or a coughing cow everyone who has will-lessly participated in NAIS will wake up to the "depopulation" of their animals, "for the good of the nation", without testing or confimation of anything wrong. There goes our local economies, our national food system and Hello, cheap, imported foods. . . .until there is an embargo on the US. Wake up America, it's already too late but things can still be done. This isn't about the Amish getting away with anything (else) or religious freedom of a certain sect. This is about our personal freedom to choose and our National freedom to live as Americans. Fight NAIS everywhere before it gets worse."

RFID, LTD and Advanced ID animal identification and automobile tires-- May 2, 2006
Leading technology integrator RFID, LTD. (OTC: RFDL) today announced an alliance with Advanced ID Corporation (OTC BB: AIDO). Advanced ID develops and manufactures uniquely numbered radio frequency identification (RFID) products for use in individual animals, providing a global identification solution for companion animals, agribusiness and also the automotive tire industry.
This alliance establishes RFID, LTD. as a preferred systems integrator for Advanced ID Corporation.
http://www.rfidsolutionsonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B37FA4891-84CF-45E4-9D78-4B46E0AF88D3%7D&Bucket=Current+Head
lines&VNETCOOKIE=NO

1. SCANNERS ( mostly free ) and STANDARDIZATION and Tags

USDA beefs up ( $80,000 ) "ZigBeef" active tags for Cattle -- June 2, 2006
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/14721111.htm

Standardization Code for of chip-scanners and databases -- Feb. 16, 2006
"Dog Identification Group"
Chris Laurence, veterinary director for the Dogs Trust, says the UK has worked hard to address these issues. The British Small Animal Veterinary Association has a microchip advisory group that has helped develop standards and
the Dog Identification Group (comprising welfare groups, vets and dog wardens, and chaired by Laurence) has worked with chip manufacturers, distributors and inserters to develop a code of practice.
"The databases are also all accessible by a single point of contact, and that's taken quite a lot of time to agree," he adds.
Some newer chips contain a biosensor and can also send the animals' temperature.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=264432&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/

30,000 Free "read-any-chip" scanners ( work for people as well as dogs) -- March 22, 2006
Ed: They sure would come in handy for humans in case of a crisis ...what a coincidence !
"The Crystal Import Corporation, the U.S. distributor of DATAMARS SA, a leading manufacturer of radio frequency identification microchips, today announced the donation of 20,000 scanners capable of reading or detecting both 134.2 kHz and 125 kHz microchips [ Ed: same as for VeriChip for people ] to shelters and veterinary hospitals across the nation. Additionally, The Crystal Import Corp. will offer a free scanner to up to 10,000 shelters and veterinarians with a purchase of 20 RFID microchips for a total commitment of 30,000 scanners

This announcement comes in response to recent action in Congress and through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that calls for appropriate regulations to allow for an open radio frequency identification technology system that would enable a scanner to read all microchips used for the identification (http://www.readallchips.com),of pets in the United States. Currently APHIS is considering the adoption of the ISO (International Standards Organization) standard.

Banfield wholeheartedly supports a transition to the ISO standard and we applaud the Crystal Import Corporation's donation of scanners that can read the ISO 134.2 kHz and read or detect all the different 125 kHz microchips that we know of. As the U.S. moves forward in adopting an ISO standard, Crystal is taking the next crucial step with this donation; providing a way for shelters and veterinarians to obtain free scanners that can read virtually any chip," said Scott Campbell, DVM, Banfield Chairman and CEO."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060321/nytu093.html?.v=41

Standardization Nov. 2005
many of these ID systems are encrypted and can only be read by proprietary technology.
Crystal asserts in its suit that a key goal of AVID and Digital Angel is to prevent Crystal from introducing animal RFID products in the U.S. which operate on the internationally accepted frequency of 134.2 kHz, the standard adopted by ISO.

The United States is one of the only countries in the world that does not use the ISO standard to regulate the use of microchips in pets. However, the U.S. currently employs the ISO standard in fisheries to track more than two million fish. Recent developments, including this decision, signal a move to an open standard.
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=892

Universal Scanner for pets -- Nov. 14, 2005
Digital Angel ...announced today that it has developed and will soon begin selling a new and significantly improved scanner that can electronically read or detect any implanted RFID microchip currently used for pet identification and ownership purposes in the U.S. companion pet market. The new scanners are now in production and are expected to be available for purchase by veterinarians, animal shelters and clinics in late November.
Dual readability
The new scanner was designed to read the vast majority of chips in the nation's expanding companion pet marketplace that use a 125 kHz radio frequency including chips that are encrypted. The new scanner can also detect the presence of a
134 kHz radio frequency chip, also called an ISO chip, which is commonly used outside the country but is present in a small number of pets in the U.S.
"we are agile enough to adapt to any changes or new needs in the marketplace." [ McGrath]
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051114/nym184.html?.v=23

HomeAgain universal scanner -- Nov. 15, 2005 ... 125 kHz preferred
This program will be rolled out nationwide in December 2005.
Every new HOMEAGAIN scanner will now read all microchips utilizing the 125 kHz radio frequency including those from companies that market an encrypted chip that previously could not be read by all U.S. scanners. The new scanners will also detect the 134 kHz microchips, or ISO chip, commonly used outside of the United States. While the new scanner will not show the number of the ISO chip, it will indicate the presence of the chip so that steps toward a recovery can be put in place.
We are also implementing a program where pets coming into the United States -- typically microchipped at 134 kHz -- can be implanted with the HOMEAGAIN 125 kHz microchips at no charge," Dr. Pappas added. "This process will facilitate making sure pets coming into the U.S. are enrolled in a recovery database. That way if they are ever lost, they can be returned to their owner."
The HOMEAGAIN microchip is marketed by Schering-Plough Animal Health Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schering-Plough Corp.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051115/nytu042.html?.v=33

Digital Angel , Schering-Plough donate scanners for Katrina pets-- Sept. 20, 2005
Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP - News), are donating implantable RFID (radio-frequency identification) microchips and scanners to animal shelters along the Gulf Coast to help in the extensive pet identification effort following Hurricane Katrina. To date, Digital Angel has provided 2,000 microchips and 28 scanners that Schering-Plough is distributing to various animal shelters along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

The HomeAgain Pet Recovery Service includes microchips, readers, non- surgical injection systems and a national database. The system involves the insertion of a microchip with a unique 10-digit number in the animal allowing electronic readers at animal shelters, veterinary clinics and other locations throughout the country to access the number and link it to a database containing the name of the animal's owner and other information
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050920/latu025a.html?.v=1

The South St. Paul-based company said it has provided 2,000 microchips and 28 scanners through its distributor, Kenilworth, N.J.-based Schering-Plough Corp. (NYSE:SGP - News), to various animal shelters along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/050920/1166618.html?.v=1

Pet Scanner-Reader looks same as VeriChip reader for humans
http://www.countrysidepet.com/prod.itml/icOid/1747 rms

New ISO doggie-chips 132 khz
Last year, the Oregon Humane Society began buying and implanting the new 134-kilohertz microchip -- also known as the International Standards Organization (ISO) chip -- from a Canadian company called Pethealth Inc.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1103547369277750.xml

Standardization : 125 kHz vs. 134.2 kHz ( Avid and Banfield)
http://www.cr80news.com/library/2005/02/03/companies-conspire-to-cage-pet-standards/

Portal-reader for pets "Walkies"-- Jan. 23, 2005
Auckland engineering company Electronic Data Identification is claiming a world first after building a "walk-through" machine which can read microchips implanted in dogs.
Director Mark Powell says that, till now, microchipped dogs have had to be hand-scanned using a chip-card reader about the size of a TV remote control
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3164574a28,00.html

Digital Angel donates scanners for lost pets in Florida --Sept. 16, 2004
SO. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Angel Corporation announced today that the Company, along with Schering-Plough Animal Health Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schering-Plough Corporation
(NYSE: SGP - News), will be donating their Pocket Reader RFID (radio frequency identification) scanners to animal shelters in South Florida to help residents recover the multitude of pets that have been lost or injured during the recent hurricanes. The Company will also provide scanners to shelters in the Florida Panhandle area to assist in their preparation for the effects of Hurricane Ivan. The scanners are used to "read" a microchip implanted in pets for identification purposes.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040916/lath007b_1.html

2. National animal id system ; LIVESTOCK ( cattle, cows etc. )
NAIS :  Every animal tagged: tracking your livlihood -- March 17, 2006
Must register pet chickens etc.
Government and Digital Angel working hand in hand

Mandated tagging proposed by Digital Angel -- March 15, 2007
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070314006107&newsLang=en

NAIS does not protect against "mad cow" disease -- May 8, 2006
Judith McGeary, a founder of the Liberty Ark Coalition, and Executive Director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. She says: "NAIS will not benefit cattle, farmers, or consumers. Rather, NAIS will create profits for the companies that make the microchips and radio tags, while American consumers will see the price of their beef rise, without any additional safety."
There is no legitimate need for the USDA to launch this massive tracking system. Brand laws, ear tags, and sales records already provide an adequate traceback system that has been used successfully for years. If the goal of the USDA is truly to protect the food supply chain, then the focus should be placed on the packing industry, not on the producer.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/lamb050806.htm

First the animals...then us ?
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2362

Digital Angel : Meat trace-back -- Feb. 19, 2008
SO. ST. PAUL, Minn. - (Business Wire) Digital Angel .... announced today the importance of implementing a national animal identification system that provides prompt trace-back following the largest beef recall in United State's history. The system includes electronic radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and scanners that work in conjunction with databases to register livestock information and quickly isolate any problem discovered in an animal from birth through slaughter and distribution, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
"This latest and largest beef recall underscores the importance of a National Animal Identification System (NAIS). As adoption among producers evolves from visual to electronic identification, the status of the food supply will become increasingly safe." [ quote by Joseph Grillo ]

Randolph K. Geissler, President of Digital Angel's animal applications business, said, The nation's demand for meat products is becoming more and more complicated because of the co-mingling of livestock required to meet this demand."
Digital Angel is also the first animal tag manufacturer to be designated as an Animal Identification (AIN) tag manufacturer by the USDA, which signifies that the Company's tagging system is capable of identifying livestock with the unique, lifetime animal identification number that is being established as a national standard through the NAIS.
Digital Angel is the owner of a majority position in VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ: CHIP).
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/digital-angels-livestock-tagging-products-help-secure-food-supply,283496.shtml

US privacy campaigners fear mark of the beast
A decision by the Bush administration to proceed with what is believed to be the largest radio frequency tagging programme in history has triggered protests from US privacy campaigners....
(Nais) becomes fully operational in 2009. They also fear that the technology earmarked for the scheme could be used on people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1761718,00.html

National Animal ID System necessary [ NAIS ] --April 20, 2005
The National Animal Identification System, still a work in progress but headed for mandatory implementation, could have been useful in tracking and containing strangles in Florida and Kentucky, a veterinarian with the United States Department of Agriculture said.
The NAIS is designed to strengthen animal disease control efforts. It's funded by state and federal government, as well as the animal industry. The horse industry has a voice through the USDA Equine Species Working Group, whose co-chairman is Dan Fick, executive director of The Jockey Club.
http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=27696

Federated Farmers seek alternative to civil disobedience-- Feb. 20, 2006
Federated Farmers is not planning to mount a civil disobedience campaign at this stage against micro-chipping dogs, despite growing calls from the regions for it to take such a stand.
The federation is opposed to working dogs being included in a law due to take effect in July that requires all dogs registered from that time to have an identification micro-chip implanted.
Farmers object to the increased costs of micro-chipping and say it will do nothing to prevent attacks from uncontrolled dogs
http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=303123&catid=3011

DA's Destron Fearing PVC tags -- Oct. 9, 2007 -- Process Verified Program
Digital Angel Corporation ... announced today that Superior Livestock Auction, the pioneer and leader in marketing load-l of cattle via satellite and the Internet, has selected Digital Angel's animal applications unit, Destron Fearing, to manufacture an exclusive tag for its new PVP (Process Verified Program) program Superior Verified
Superior Verified provides age and source verification to help producers differentiate their cattle with buyers and leverage that data to take advantage of a broader range of marketing options, a key factor in capturing the value of production information.
vaccination-related premiums
Furthermore, producers that participate in Superior Verified don't have to invest in a wand reader or enter tag numbers into a database. Qualified producers simply provide the program's data provider, IMI Global, with supporting documents (calving records, etc.) and place the tag in each animal's ear.
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Aktie/12717910/News/13632170/HEAD.html

NAIS -- Mandated chipping of animals -- Feb. 17, 2006
Ed: No personal supply of food without Big Brother's control
If you own cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, poultry, deer, elk, llamas, alpacas or goats you will be required to have a premise ID number and be registered with the government.
You will have to have a chip inserted into your animals so they can be located and tracked by satellite. In addition, the proposals call for an animal owner to report within 24 hours any missing animal, any missing tag, the sale of an animal, the death of an animal, the slaughter of an animal, the purchase of an animal, the movement of an animal off the farm or premise or the movement of an animal onto the farm or premise.

Government agents will be legally able to trespass upon private property; that is, be able to enter and inspect any property with horses or other livestock at any time, without the permission or notification of the property owner. The government will be able to locate horses for wide-scale killing in the case of real or suspected disease outbreaks
http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060217/MTCN0205/302170062/1302/MTCN02
http://magic-city-news.com/article_5194.shtml

Senate: 33.3 Million dollars to Digital Angel for National animal ID tags program -- Nov. 30, 2005
Digital Angel working with the government since 1990 ( 15 years )
the U.S. Congress has set aside $33.3 million for projects related to the national animal identification program. The Senate version of the Bill urges the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to consider Digital Angel's RFID technology in developing that program.
We [ Kevin McGrath, CEO ] believe the information that has been gathered is now advanced enough that a significant portion of the money appropriated this year should be spent on the implementation of a national ID program and we hope the USDA, through its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), agrees."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051130/law061.html?.v=36
and
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=984&display=RFID

Ed : Since the animal tagging System can be readily adapted by VeriChip for human tagging ( database system)
will the Senate appropriate money there too ?? .... like about $ 66.6 million ???

NAIS ... not good for anyone
http://www.oneskyranch.com/NAIS.htm

NAIS by March 1, 2007
Digital Angel has a big head start in marketing, thanks in part to the Agriculture Dept.-sponsored NAIS program, which, while it is billed as voluntary, is expected by various opponents of NAIS, including Zanoni as well as blogs such as nonais.org, to be imposed on farmers by growing numbers of states. Michigan begins requiring RFID tags for cattle on March 1, 2007 [ Ed: completed date ] in the first such effort
. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2007/sb20070111_186325.htm?chan=tc&campaign_id=rss_tech

David Gumpert : Farmers Say NO http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2006/sb20061219_549584.htm
David Gumpert provides updates on this issue at his blog, www.thecompletepatient.com.
His Web site is www.davidgumpert.com

NO NAIS http://nonais.org/

Tagging Cows to go National
But in the wake of fears over mad cow disease a new method could be used not only to identify them, but to trace them from birth to the supermarket.
The University of Florida is helping farmers by processing the data, but the animals are actually being tagged in Williston.
Everywhere you look at Thomas Cattle Buying Services Inc., you see thousands of cows, wearing high tech ID tags
.http://www.wcjb.com/news.asp?id=10260

DA receives $600,000 from government for animal electronic tags EID -- Oct.19, 2007 AIN
Digital Angel Corporation .. announced today that it has received an order for 630,000 compliant radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags valued at more than $600,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The cattle ear tags will be used for USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)/Veterinary Services State-Federal Cooperative Disease control and eradication efforts in targeted, increased-risk geographic locations. ...
The NAIS, a cooperative program between state and federal governments and the livestock industry to help trace, manage and eradicate animal diseases
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2007/oct/12/news2.html

Old Big Brother Had a farm -- March 25, 2006
"The program is largely based on a plan developed in 2002 through an industry-government collaborative effort facilitated by NIAA." NIAA represents, among others, the biggest meat producers in the U.S., including Cargill Meat Solutions and the National Pork Producers Council, and the makers of high-tech animal-ID equipment, such as Micro Beef Technologies and Digital Angel. The latter group, needless to say, could benefit directly from a nationwide animal-ID program

The program -- which is thus far voluntary, but could eventually become mandatory -- is designed to unfold in three stages. ....
First, farmers and producers would register the barns, factories, slaughterhouses, and even homes where their animals -- be they 10,000 cows, a dozen chickens, or a single potbellied pig -- reside and are processed.

Second, animals born or living on those premises would be assigned a 15-digit federal ID number and a tag -- in some cases, an implanted radio-frequency identification (RFID) device. But producers of certain species such as chickens and swine that are bought, moved, and slaughtered in big groups could be allowed to identify an entire lot with a single ID number -- a less time-intensive and expensive process. Critics argue that since factory farms are in the business of mass production of animals, this would present them with a cost advantage. Miller says this is a loophole that effectively "renders the whole program moot."

Third, data on each animal's whereabouts would be compiled [ Ed: into a database ] and regularly updated in a centralized computer network, which the USDA expects to be up and running on a national scale by 2009 at the earliest. The department has suggested that animals' RFID tags could eventually be tracked real-time by a Global Positioning System, but there is no clear time frame for this scenario.

Zanoni sums up the views of many independent farmers: "Real food security comes from raising food yourself or buying from a local farmer you actually know. The USDA plan will only stifle local sources of production through over-regulation and unmanageable costs."
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/33967/

Advanced ID [ AVID ] , Livestock Identification -- Sept. 21, 2005 ...UHF frequency
CALGARY, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2005--Advanced developments continue at Advanced ID Corporation (OTCBB:AIDO). Already, orders are being filled for the new DataTRAC(TM) products that utilize ultra high frequency (UHF) (915 MHz) RFID technology for agriculture livestock. The company has realized growth of 62% in the first two quarters of 2005, primarily through the Advanced ID wholly owned subsidiary; AVID Canada, the largest provider of companion animal identification in the country. Advanced ID announces even more developments today with the appointment of Daniel W. Finch as President & CEO.

Since 1994, Advanced ID Corporation has offered a product line of over 100 items comprised of low frequency RFID microchips, identification scanners, and a proprietary pet recovery database to the companion animal and biological sciences markets. Advanced ID Corporation supplies over 3,000 organizations such as animal shelters, veterinarians, breeders, government agencies, universities, zoos, research labs and fisheries with RFID devices for companion animals, equines, bovines, llamas, alpacas, ostriches, aquatic species, reptiles, migratory and endangered species. Advanced ID Corporation has implanted microchips in over 450,000 animals, currently tracks nearly one million animals in a proprietary pet recovery database, and reunites numerous lost pets with their families each month.

In 2004, after nearly three years of development, Advanced ID Corporation began commercializing proprietary ultra high frequency DataTRAC(TM) tags, readers, and trace back management solutions to minimize or eliminate the spread of disease and the resulting impact of biosecurity and food safety issues related to the livestock industry. Advanced ID Corporation products have been developed to provide the most reliable and cost effective solutions for identification and trace back of livestock through their entire production cycle.
Advanced ID Corporation continues to be actively involved with government and industry projects establishing livestock identification and trace back solutions in Australia, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, Taiwan and the United States.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050921005047&newsLang=en

National Animal Database System -- June 27, 2005 ...to be UNIVERSALLY compatible
Digital Angel Corp. ... announced today that it has accelerated its plans to introduce a national database system that will provide for the registration, tracking and source verification of all livestock tagged with electronic radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags throughout the United States.
The Company also plans to work with the USDA, NCBA (National Cattleman's Beef Association), the National Pork Producers Council and other industry leaders to make this database (and/or other complementary databases) a standard for the industry, said Digital Angel President and CEO Kevin N. McGrath
Our system, backed by our nearly 60 years in the livestock tagging business and our international experience in building tagging and scanning technology, is intended to be universally compatible with a system which the United States Department of Agriculture will ultimately define and perhaps deploy as a national identification system for livestock."
The database will be housed in the Company's South Saint Paul offices and will be accessible by livestock producers via the Internet. The Company is currently working with other companies that could participate in the deployment of the system.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050627/lam062.html?.v=16

Digital Angel said it will charge a modest fee for each animal tagged for the system, which is compliant with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's National Animal Identification System standards.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/050627/1125259.html?.v=1

Congress approves National Tagging of animals -- Jan. 25, 2006
"Digital Angel Corporation (Amex: DOC - News) today reiterated its proposal for a comprehensive national electronic RFID solution to satisfy renewed interest in a program that will quickly identify and track animals of interest in an animal health incident such as an outbreak of Mad Cow Disease. The system includes electronic RFID (radiofrequency identification) tags and scanners which work in conjunction with various databases to register the livestock information. It can quickly isolate any problem discovered in an animal from birth through slaughter and distribution.
In both 2005 and 2006, the United States Congress (through annual appropriations bills) acknowledged RFID technology and specifically Digital Angel's RFID technology as a viable and logical solution to the country's health concerns related to Mad Cow and other infectious diseases
Wants Global tagging
Kevin N. McGrath [ Digital Angel ] : "We urge the USDA to work with us, the industry and the National Cattleman's Beef Association toward rapid implementation of an RFID solution to satisfy global animal health concerns."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060124/latu047.html?.v=40

Animals to get unique ID number -- March 1, 2006
Today in Washington, a nonprofit industry group plans to launch a program that aims to assign each cow, bison and other livestock its own 15-digit number and track their movements in a national database. Animals would be tagged, perhaps in the ear with a bar code or a radio-frequency chip. Another alternative: a chip could be implanted beneath the animal's skin.
The new system, with an estimated start-up cost of $2.5 million to $3 million, is part of a pilot effort that has been tracking about 300,000 animals in the Southeast and Northwest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will issue the codes and the U.S. Animal Identification Organization, a nonprofit industry group, will administer the database.
Pigs, chickens and other poultry could be part of the program, and are likely to be identified by group lot or coop. They, like cattle, aren't completely anonymous now: livestock owners have methods of identifying their animals, whether it's branding cattle, an ear tattoo for swine or a coop number for poultry.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=20168

first they came for the animals ....
Kansas tracks livestock with Digital Angel -- May 26, 2005
Kansas has selected Digital Angel to complete the final phases of a National Animal Identification System pilot project that tests satellite and cellular tracking and identification systems for livestock during commercial transport
"Our system will provide the necessary traceability of animals, automatically, recording all data, including time, date,
GPS location and unique animal identification in a central database.
Ultimately, when all cellular and satellite systems are in place, this will allow traceability of livestock from birth to the processing plant nearly anywhere in the world."

Digital Angel Corporation develops and deploys sensor and communications technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets [Ed: including people ]

Applications for the Company's products include identification and monitoring of pets, humans, fish and livestock through its patented implantable microchips; location tracking and message monitoring of vehicles and aircraft in remote locations through systems that integrate GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications; and monitoring of asset conditions such as temperature and movement, through advanced miniature sensors
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1.9 Million livestock tags -- Feb. 15, 2006
"The significant increase in e-tag sales is a result, in part, of the livestock industry's growing use of Digital Angel's RFID as a technology of choice in the U.S., Canada and around the world. As we get closer to full implementation of a National Identification Program in the U.S., retailers, producers and cattlemen, in general are preparing for the evolution into RFID technology as a standard in the livestock tracking industry.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060215/law071.html?.v=78

Livestock tracking -- Sept. 12 , 2005 NAIS
Maine and Vermont have won grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish statewide National Animal Identification System programs. The Maine program - ID ME - will cover commercial and noncommercial livestock operations
This chip will have a radio frequency and can be read to find the history of that animal." Hoenig said the chip can provide a national identification number that is part of the U.S. identification program.
Maine farmers who will participate raise the following livestock: cattle and bison; swine; sheep; goats; horses; poultry; deer, elk and other cervids; llamas; and alpacas. Aquaculture industries also will participate
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=119855

CCIA main distributor
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Digital Angel --- Global Livestock estimated at $500 million of e.Tags -- Feb. 14, 2005
Dept. of Agriculture USA gets its first shipment of $800,000 order.
This contract was announced in December 2004 and the shipment, valued at more than $150,000, represents the initial shipment of a total contract of more than $800,000. The contract covers the purchase of electronic tags, combination visual and e.Tags(TM) and scanners designed to identify individual animals in the national captive cervid population. The Digital Angel system is similar to the Company's products currently used in the companion pet, livestock, and salmon industries in the U.S., Canada and other parts of the world

Moreover, as national ID programs begin to occur throughout the world, we expect to see significant increases in the global tagging market. We currently estimate the global tagging market to be between $150 million and $200 million. Assuming implementation of electronic ID systems in the U.S., Canada, parts of South America and the European Union, we estimate that the tagging market will exceed $500 million for the tags, scanners and related data systems. This will be good for Digital Angel and the entire industry."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050214/lam082_2.html

First they came for the animals ...... reading between the lines
Digital Angel : National ID program for Dept. of Agriculture -- July 22, 2004
I must say we found ourselves in good company, because the range of technologies together forms an ideal pool for a national livestock ID program such as the one that Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman has endorsed.

Our technology can be rolled out quickly in quantities to cover the entire national livestock population as soon as we are called upon to do so."

Commenting about the House Agriculture Technology Exposition, Congressman Gil Gutknecht, Republican from Minnesota said, "I was pleased that the House Agriculture Committee held the Livestock Technology Expo today. Agriculture is truly becoming a high tech industry. Technology providers, such as Digital Angel, will play a critical role in the future of agriculture by bringing added value to the U.S. livestock industry."
We certainly join with those on Capitol Hill who urge the Department of Agriculture to move with all deliberate speed to implement a national animal ID program to protect the health of the nation's herds and the safety of the national food supply."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040722/lath039_1.html
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/0722000baaa02921.prn&Sys=siteia&Fid=POLITICS&Type=News&Filter=Politics

2 B PLANTS ... APHIS -- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Agricultural Dept. to tag Animals ( NAIS ) and Plants ( APHIS ) -- Oct. 2, 2007
Digital Angel Corporation ... announced today that it has received an order for 630,000 compliant radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags valued at more than $600,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The cattle ear tags will be used for USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)/Veterinary Services State-Federal Cooperative Disease control and eradication efforts in targeted, increased-risk geographic locations
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071002005781&newsLang=en

3. HEALTH -- Mad Cow Disease... BSE ... CJD ..Scrapie.... TB... Bird Flu ...etc. etc. etc.

Healing Animals in Jesus Name ... a true testimony by Demos Shakarian
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/cows.html

New mad cow safeguards
http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/FDA_Proposes_Additional_Mad_Cow_Safeguards.shtml

Tags to track your food
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B3R, Temple Tag use Digital Angel GPS Destron tracking system --May 5, 2004
Neil Odom, B3R Special Projects Coordinator. "Destron's technology and Temple's complementary products and services have met our needs by offering a complete line of electronic and visual identification products from the farm through to the processing plant. The resulting improved and simplified data collection process we have adopted also provides quality assurance and traceability for our unique products, ultimately benefiting the consumer. We evaluated Destron's electronic identification products for nearly a year, and we now believe that the system is ready for full-scale implementation into our audit system."
B3R Country Meats, based in Childress, TX, is a producer of all-natural, premium-quality, branded beef products. For further information, please visit www.B3R.com.

Digital Angel's Kevin Nieuwsma, President of the RFID Division, added, "The need for traceability systems has been elevated by outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) and foot and mouth disease in the U.K. and Europe in recent years.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040504/latu091_1.html

A High-Tech Race to Corral Mad Cow -- March 1, 2004
Brian Bolton. His company, Optibrand Ltd. of Fort Collins, Colo., invented a device that farmers can use to scan their cows' retinas so they can track them reliably through every step of the beef production process. The pattern of veins in each cow's retina is unique. And the same goes for sheep -- even cloned ones, as Optibrand proved last year, when inventors there scanned the retinas of cloned twins of the late Dolly the sheep.

The USDA's plan calls for perfecting technology to trace the source of any disease -- be it mad cow or Foot-and-Mouth disease -- within two days of an outbreak. The agency is recommending that all livestock in the U.S. be tagged with radio frequency identification devices (RFID) so they can be tracked as they move from farm to farm and ultimately to slaughterhouses. Information on each animal's origin and location would be stored in a national database. RFID is the technology of choice. But since the tags are subject to damage and tampering, retinal scanning, implantable computer chips, and rapid DNA matching may also prove necessary as backups. "We think there's room for all these technologies," says John F. Wiemers, the USDA's director of national animal identification.

Among the companies leading the effort to track cows is Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN ), which makes RFID technology for livestock in partnership with Dallas-based Allflex USA Inc. The system consists of a tag, about the size of a quarter, that's stapled to the base of the animal's ear. Each cow gets a numeric code that's programmed into the tag and then scanned with a handheld or stationary device every time the cow arrives at a new spot in the production chain. "It's like an electronic license plate," says Glenn Fischer, senior vice-presi-dent for Allflex.

Another option would be to encode identification data into microchips that are implanted in the cows' ears or under their skin. Like RFID tags, these chips could be read by handheld scanners. And some day they might provide other benefits. St. Paul (Minn.)-based Digital Angel Corp. (DOC ) sells implantable chips for livestock, as well as for pet cats and dogs. Now, its researchers are working on a chip that constantly monitors the animal's temperature to warn of disease.
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4. BIO THERMO www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/biothermo.html

LifeChip (R) distributor : Jockey Club for horses -- March 12, 2008
SO. ST. PAUL, Minn. - (Business Wire) Digital Angel ... Company ... announced today it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with The Jockey Club, the official breed registry for North American Thoroughbred horses. The new agreement allows Thoroughbred breeders, owners, managers and agents the ability to obtain Destron Fearing LifeChip® radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips from The Jockey Club for use in Thoroughbred horses
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/digital-angel-enters-lifechip-distribution-agreement-with-the-jockey-club,311897.shtml

"LifeChip" : passive transponder with sensors - September 4, 2007
The St. Paul Minn.-based frequency identification technology company said the LifeChip microchip is the first of its kind to receive USDA approval.
The company [ DIGITAL ANGEL ] .. said each LifeChip is the size of a grain of rice and contains a passive transponder programmed with a unique code that allows owners, breeders, trainers and veterinarians to identify the horse and check its temperature. The number can be recorded in breed and discipline registries or kept in farm and ranch files for future reference.
Digital Angel recently merged with Delray Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, its biggest investor and parent company of VeriChip Corp. and Thermo Life Energy Corp.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?Feed=ACBJ&Date=20070904&ID=7412422

BIO THERMO CHIPS for Race Horses -- Sept. 25, 2006
equine chipping program
"This is a major development for Digital Angel. The early results of our current program in Southern California have been overwhelmingly positive. Since late last year the California Horseracing Board, a division of the California Department of Agriculture, has been using federal funds to implant all new, in-coming young horses entering their racing career, with the Digital Angel Bio-Thermo chips," said President and CEO Kevin N. McGrath. "To date, the California Horseracing Board has purchased 1,500 Bio-Thermo chips, out of an order of 4,000, and an estimated 500 horses at Southern California racetracks have already been successfully implanted."
The bio-thermo microchip is about the size of a grain of rice. It is easily, and harmlessly, injected into the crest of a horse's neck. The chip monitors the horse's temperature, which is a good indicator of the animal's health. The chip also contains a unique identification number that, when activated by a scanner, can be connected to a database with the horse's documentation
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060925/20060925005186.html?.v=2


UK gets 50,000 Bio Thermo Chips ( temperature sensing ) -- Feb. 4, 2005
US to get them this summer '05
Bio-Thermo is the first temperature sensing implantable RFID Microchip for the companion pet (dog and cat) world. The Bio-Thermo Chip is a first of its kind in implantable RFID technology
"With a growing demand for uniform pet identification and pet wellness worldwide, we believe that this technology will lead the industry to a next generation identification chip that brings additional wellness and home-care/home-diagnostic capabilities to pet owners worldwide." ( for people "Thermo-Life" www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/biosensors.html
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch1p2.html )

Digital Angel Corporation develops and deploys sensor and communications technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets. (geosynchronous satellite communication)
and monitoring of asset conditions such as temperature and movement, through advanced miniature sensors.
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