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How about leaving the branding/ear tagging as it is, and requiring that every vehicle be identified such that GPS tracking can be done?  Assuming that the stolen cattle are trucked out, maybe monitoring who is in the area would be easier than tracking individual animals. Though this smacks of Big Brother, it would allow law enforcement to track vehicles anywhere across state lines/country boundaries for legitimate crime investigations, similar to gun databases, fingerprint databases, etc.

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