The problem with compensation for the slaughtered animals is that money cannot replace the work of lifetimes spent in building up bloodlines.
The suicide rate surged among farmers during the 1967 outbreak. Confiscating guns at this point will probably save a few lives but to what end?
The farmers will have to start over from scratch. And where will they find breeding stock? Or, more properly, where will they find it at a price that they can afford and how will they survive until the herds are built up to profitable proportions again?
My friends on the Isle Of Man dread the East wind from Cumbria which you can see on a clear day. So far Man is clean but for how long?
With the ease of travel today, this could easily go worldwide. No more beef on the table.
Won't PETA and the militant vegitarians be pleased.

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