National Animal Identification System will put small farmers out of business, by requiring that farmers pay the cost of registration devices of between $1 and $20 for each animal. Large, corporate factory farms which are connected to vertically integrated, birth-to-death factory systems ID and pay by the herd (and not the individual animal), while small farmers must pay it for each animal. The National Animal Identification System covers most livestock species, including cattle, poultry, horses, donkeys, mules, sheep, goats and swine, as well as bison, deer, elk, llamas, alpacas and even some fish species, under the heading of aquaculture. Household pets such as cats
Animal Rights National Conference conferences followed, all in Washington DC. By then, West Coast animal rights activists began clamoring for moving the conference to Los Angeles. Unsure of whether the West Coast could support a conference and wary of losing the continuing interest of the Washington area, FARM organized two conferences in the summer of 2003, in both Washington and Los Angeles. The success of the latter ensured that, beginning in 2004, the annual animal right rights national conference alternated between the two cities. The annual animal rights national conference is dedicated to the vision of a world where animals are free from all