To all horse owners in San Diego County

Do you own a horse? Ride it on the trails? Take it to a horse show? Take it to an animal hospital when it is sick? If you do, the US Department of Agriculture, the American Horse Council and some mega-agricultural industries are planning a surprise for you. They have been working at this since 2002 but have not told horse owners about it beyond a notice in the Federal Register. It is called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), now in the draft stage. It purportedly enables the rapid tracing of disease outbreaks to their source — a worthy goal but a costly nightmare for animal owne...