for some years the EU has been trying to implement an ID/monitoring database to keep track of sheep. (A similar database has already been in operation for several years for tracking cows.)
This was the response from Wales..
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Asked about the European Union proposal for an electronic identity system for sheep, the Welsh MP Mark Williams said in a parliamentary question: “We already have a robust system of identifying a species. If it’s woolly and goes ‘baa’, it’s a sheep.”
