SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 56
WHEREAS, a permanent electronic identification device to track all red meat-producing livestock from farm to table would be a great protective device for anti-bioterrorism; and
WHEREAS, such devices would be useful to the producers of red meat-producing livestock in controlling diseases as a method of tracing such livestock back to the farm; and
WHEREAS, such devices would be beneficial in providing producers with livestock carcass information, including the rate of gain; and
WHEREAS, such devices would be most useful in generating information on the concept of "farm to table" to protect American consumers:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the Senate of the Ninety-first General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby encourage the Animal and Plant Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture to develop and promulgate a permanent electronic identification program to be used on all red meat-producing livestock that would gather information and help protect the United States' consumer in the event of a bioterrorist threat; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the United States Department of Agriculture.