Are Horse-Flue & Foot and Mouth Disease Related?

These diseases may differ medically, but to AQIS and the Government they should be treated no differently.
We have hundreds of horses 'down' with this disasterous flu but still while Rome is burning Nero fiddles on. i.e. Minister McGauran has agreed to let foot and mouth disease at risk meat into Australia from the US.

Isn't this a classic case of letting the horse bolt and then trying to re-stable it?!

You'd reckon McGauran et al, including AQIS, would want to learn as quickly as possible and shore-up our defences to prevent this sort of thing happening again to our precious livestock. And you'd think they'd be even more vigilant when it comes to our massive meat livestock market. We are 2nd only to Brazil in beef exports but are allowing meat at risk of foot and mouth into Australia from the US and Brazil. It will be a sad day if (when?) some exotic disease devestates our meat industry because some poilticians wanted to "Go All The Way With LBJ"!
What do you think?
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