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Michigan Prevails in "Mark of the Beast" Lawsuit

By Ed Brayton

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A federal court has ruled in favor of the state of Michigan and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a case alleging that rules requiring farmers to tag their livestock for identification in order to help identify and prevent the spread of disease violated the religious liberty of farmers who think such tags constitute the "mark of the beast."

The case, filed in district court in Washington D.C., was brought by a group called the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund on behalf of a group of plaintiffs, all but one of whom is a farmer in Michigan. It was filed against the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) as well as the USDA.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).

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