Wilkinson, who serves as president-elect of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, said foot and mouth disease could decimate the U.S. cattle industry.border policies have led to a mass influx of illegal immigrants, and ranchers are increasingly concerned that they will bring with them a highly contagious virus that could cost billions and decimate the livestock industry.
In 2001, a FMD outbreak in the U.K. resulted in the slaughter of more than 6 million pigs, cows and sheep, according to the BBC. That outbreak had an economic impact of between $12 billion and $18 billion. In the U.S., an outbreak contained to California could cost $6 billion to $14 billion. The economic impact of a nationwide agroterrorism attack could reach $228 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture.
"Just think of that — no cattle moving anywhere in the country, or going in and out of the country, for up to a week… you’re going to see the beef industry just decimated," he said. More than 60 percent of all livestock entering the U.S. crosses the southern border at Santa Teresa/San Jeronimo in New Mexico, according to the New Mexico Partnership. From here, they go to every region of the U.S., Patterson said, and so FMD could quickly be"in every state," he added. Ogden said there were other disease and health concerns as well, many of which were"unknown.
Right in front of our faces
Start eating illegal immigrants if it does
How convenient. Now we know why biden won't secure the border!!
How many vaccines do they need pfizer? 😄
That ballon could drop whatever it wanted to. It could infect plants and animals
And increase the bugs. As scheduled
……from a guy named Bill Gates?
First it was baby food, then it was the eggs, now it’s the beef and dairy products…
White House released a statement that the southern border is secure... BuildTheWall