South Korea Moves Closer To Allowing Beef From Canada.

[kato]

One thing I know about is the plan for an immediate closure of the single road from Manitoba to Ontario, which would be the Trans Canada highway. It's already been set up and reported on the news here. Within minutes, the country would be cut in half. There is no other way to get from West to East without going through the U.S.

Now the question is, who will be on the right side of the inspection station at West Hawk Lake?

[burnt]

Well I guess it depends on whether one considers the glass half full . . .

[grassfarmer]

There was a strong economic case made for zoning
in the 2002 economic assessment of the cost of an
FMD outbreak in Canada.

http://www.animalhealth.ca/Uploads/UserFiles/File
/FOOTMOUTHFINALREPORT.pdf

It was a very good report hot on the heels of the
2001 FMD outbreak in the UK. Sadly there doesn't
seem to have been much progress made on
planning appropriate precautions since then other
than the zoning plan.
Their worst case scenario, large scale outbreak
model predicts a loss of over 10 million head of
animals and economic loss of around $46 billion.
I don't know what the final cost of BSE is reckoned
to be but believe the first two years were estimated
to have cost around $4 billion just for context.