On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:02:46PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > > Vaccinating against hoof and mouth was made illegal in Europe 10 years
> > > ago. Does anyone know the original reasoning behind that decision -- why
> > > it was chosen over a system of vaccination, inspection and certification?
> >
> > Once an animal is vaccinated, it will test positively for the disease.
>
> That problem could be just as easily solved by certification, no?
> According to an article (in the Feb 8 2001 London Review of Books --
> unfortunately not online) by the surprising Edward Luttwak (I certainly
> never took him for cattle rancher, much less a Bolivian one), they have a
> working certification regime on the jungle border between Bolivia and
> Brazil -- a place where they don't even have custom or passport control,
> which is paid for entirely by associations of ranchers. And this by
> ranchers whose veterinary costs are otherwise so neglible by northern
> standards that Luttwak argues they constitute an different economic system
> of meat raising.
>
> Michael
>
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