The USDA has spent over 150 million of our tax dollars to push this program because corporate ag wants to be able to say the meat they sell meat on the global level is safe from mad cow or other diseases. But while corporate ag gets a free ride by having one lot number per groups of animals, me and other private animal owners will do all the work and costs of tagging and tracking our privately owned animals, and corporate ag gets all the profits and very few reporting events. In other words, I tell the govt when and where I ride my horse, pay for microchipping, lose title to my private property by signing up for the program, risk losing my healthy horse to depopulation should animal disease be suspected in a 140 sq mile area, just so corporate ag can tell Japan their product is safe.