Is the National Animal Identification System a bad idea?
94871
A jolly good idea Brian.  Every animal ought to be identified and taxed.  This would increase the national revenue enormously and we could attack many more unsuspecting countries.
993180
No, probably not.  It wouldn't yeild any useful data.\n\nBiological organisms are, at least for the purpose of this question, a form of chaotic system.  Since chaotic systems can't be modeled by anyone short of God, measuring animal calls through spectrum analysis wouldn't do you very much good.
802238
I agree, vote no on this and any other bill that discriminates against a dog based on breed.  There are wonderful pitbulls, they are nice friendly dogs by nature.  It is bad owners who ruin these dogs, they train them to be mean but don't teach them to be under control.  If they start with pit bulls they will follow up with rottweilers and many other breeds who are good dogs made mean by bad owners.  A dog who is vicious and bites people should be destroyed regardless of the breed.
181483
Oh' they can definitely distinguish people. Anyone that owns a bird can tell you that. If someone besides me gets near my parrot, watch out!
769011
YES .\nI LIVE IN CALIFORNIA \nMY DOGS MUST HAVE A CHIP BY JAN.1,2007 OR I WILL PAY A $500. FINE PER DOG.\nTHE CHIP IS SMALLER THEN A GRAIN OF RICE.\nBUT HAS ALL MY INFO ON IT.\nI WILL NEVER TAKE IT.\nI HAVE TALK TO MANY WHO THINK IT IS A GREAT WAY TO STOP ID. THEFT.\nSOUND LIKE A PLAN IN THE MAKING
92641
If you lose it, someone owns your life. The national ID card system is something that is continuously brought up and shot down - studies and thinktanks repeatedly assert that such a measure would make our country less secure as a whole, and to combine all of these elements together would mean that a mugging would turn from a loss of a couple of dollars to a loss of identity for a period of time. It's just not too practical.
211631
Probably not, but it depends on whether or not it was given approval from the ASPCA. They watch over movies where animals are concerned and won't give approval if any animal is harmed during the filming.
892092
I think you are right. There is so much we don,t know, and a lot of people don't care. My partner was never in to cats, as I was, but after living with them now for years, he has observed a lot about their communication behaviour. Again, the dummies don,t notice or care.We have had an atrocious record with animals and I don't think we care enough to find out more about them. Glad you're a thinker! :)
886907
Nothing. Except the people who don't want to accept that we are animals in the first place would probably even get madder.\n\n But since when does taxonomy have any effect on anything? It's just our attempt to organize the current life as we see it.
262982
99.999percent of all 'poor defenseless animals' are killed for food.  Why should that be considered cruel which your question suggests.  I am sure that the people who work in abattoirs do not consider themselves tough in your sense. Other animals are used and subsequently killed in medical research.  Is that wrong in your opinion.  Your question also points towards you being anti hunting.  That is an entirely different matter and you should have made yourself clearer in posing the question. The seal pup cull in Canada which is due to begin very shortly.  Cruel it may be, necessary, almost certainly.  You cannot put a seal pup in the same category as a cow being killed for beef.  I am tired of this argument and would like to see if you are wearing leather shoes, woolen clothing etc. for if you are, you are no better than the people whom you argue against.
1075086
You need the National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England.  I have it at home and use it all the time to identify animals in New England.  It tells you locations of each animal by state.\n\nIf I get a chance, and this question is still up later, I'll Edit it and add an answer for you, but definitely check out that book.
1158455
What kind of bigot are you??\n\nNo !! but there should be a dumbass stamp on a hunting licence..............and it would even have a picture of YOU!!!
63975
No, because there is no such thing as 'the beast'.  \n\nIf there were, the mark would more likely be an embedded RFID chip.
861071
No such animal. Because of the high risk of  identity theft,these sites want to know who they're dealing with.
392391
Definitely for. People want to throw these animals behind bars and forget about them, where many will then live for years and years. They are exposed to other inmates, some of which may have committed relatively minor crimes, and they may prey upon them and possibly kill them. They will definitely be exposed to Correction Officers and other Correctional personnel, and may try to harm those people. They may be exposed to the public since there is open visiting areas in many states where the inmates and visitors are in an open room with just a few Correction Officers watching (not all prisons are like on TV where they look longingly through the glass, put their hands up against it, and speak through a phone). And there is also the risk of escape from death row, as has happened in both Texas and Virginia in the past dozen years or so. Some crimes are so horrible and vicious, the only fitting penalty is the death penalty. You can't lock them up in a little box 24/7 as many people would say you should do, because the ACLU, PLS, and a host of other liberal buffoons would come out of the woodwork. Besides, with technology getting better in the field of DNA and other forms of forensic science, it will make it much more likely that the results are definitely beyond a reasonable doubt.
560885
You would think that the pecking itself or the usage pattern of (as it were) of the pecker would be enough to identify not only the sub-species but the individual, however, there is not scientific evidence to show that this is the case. \n\nIt is possible through the use of photgraphs of the peckers to identfy even beyond the sub-species to the invidual (there are a few famous cases of this).
481291
Once RFID is in people, free society will end. I don't have a problem putting them in criminals and animals, but they don't belong in people.