Al Martens column: Expense for RFID tags can't be justified
The threat of a foreign animal disease infecting the livestock herds of east central Wisconsin is certainly not keeping anyone I know awake at night.
Diseases like Foot and Mouth disease or hog cholera are someone else's worry — after all, they are a continent away.
Even Mad Cow disease only affected Wisconsin producers indirectly by reducing the slaughter price of cattle and eliminating down cow kill facilities. But the threat is very real, and disease control experts' main focus is on when a foreign animal disease will strike, not if it will strike.
