And it is farmers throughout the UK - not just in vaccinated areas and not only cattle farmers - who will have to bear the consequences for a very long time to come.
It contains high-quality protein and is now used to feed not just cattle, but as Dave Kinard of the NCPA told me, "just about any critter at all, " including horses, hogs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and mules.
Luminaries such as David Letterman, Tom Brokaw, Charles Schwab and Tom Siebel have all bought ranches, and not just for cattle operations.
The only way to stop this insanity is for customers to start showing up as human beings and not just as cattle to be herded.
As this report from the Northern Territory shows, even a temporary suspension will not only hit cattle farmers, but all the support industries, like trucking firms and, more curiously, helicopter mustering groups.
He confessed to a few oddities in his transplanted reality, such as having to nail down understandings with the local peoples not to have cattle and goats roam the town, of which we saw a bit.
Across the country, 63% said badgers should not be killed for cattle TB, with 31% in favour of culling and the remainder undecided.
Compare this to the 2:1 ratio for poultry and anywhere from 5:1 to 20:1 for cattle, not to mention the thousands of gallons of water it takes to grow a pound of beef.
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It is not beset by angry cattle-ranchers.
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Vaccination is not effective in badgers or cattle that are infected with TB.
And what if your business is not network equipment or auctioning off cattle feed on the Web?
Government legislation requires all cattle, including those not housed on farms, to be tested for bovine TB.
It was discouraging to read Monday's lead article in Politico in which correspondent Glenn Thrush, citing Democrats in the White House and on the Hill, reported that Obama in his State of the Union will offer the GOP not an olive branch but a cattle prod.
The former have accused the latter of grazing cattle on land that does not belong to them.
U.S. horses are not raised for food the way that cattle are.
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Parts of central Panama have been reduced to a dustbowl, and thousands of cattle have had to be slaughtered (not wholly a loss: they were already helping to make the dustbowl).
Not surprisingly, the Luo tend not to use the proceeds of land sales to buy cattle.
Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands are not taking part in a scheme to compensate farmers who destroy cattle over 30 months old.
"Farmers will now have to decide how best to protect their cattle" adding that "I for one would not blame them for anything they do".
Since corn is not a natural part of a cow's diet, cattle fed on it may experience stress and other ailments, so they are routinely treated with antibiotics.
The Egyptian videos have not been made public, but Animals Australia said they showed cattle believed to have come from Australia being treated in a "vicious, cruel and clumsy" way.
U.S. officials have not said when they will re-open the border to Canadian cattle.
But people were not at risk from increased dioxin levels deposited from the burning carcasses of slaughtered cattle.
At the moment, the South Koreans do not, due to Mad Cow concerns, allow the importation of beef from cattle 30 months or older.
In a statement issued to CNN in 2006, the USDA said it does not support 100% testing because the disease is difficult to detect in young cattle, the primary source of beef in the United States.
Anti-cull protesters, led by the Badger Trust, argued it had not yet been scientifically proven that badgers are implicated in the transmission of TB within cattle and it doubts a cull would help eradicate the disease.
Along the border, cattle ranchers, Indians and local priests all say that the Venezuelan armed forces do not patrol.
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Koch already has the tenth-largest cattle-feeding operation in the U.S., but that's not the reason it bought the Purina operation.
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