Thread: Foot n mouth

Threats like F&M, and others for me draw into sharp relief things like our enthusiasm for having direct international flights to regional airports in NZ....and I don't like it. At least those arriving into Auckland have a 'moat' of urban/industrial development around the airport....nothwithstanding the proximity of Pukekohe.

If you can sell horse meat into the UK which was labelled as beef you gotta wonder what they are prepared to do to the pig meat... Why the hell we import pork into NZ is beyond me esp when the govt are looking at lifting our animal welfare standards in the pork industry and yet the overseas standards are lower than what we currently have.

Originally Posted by jakewire

This , I would go further
I have no idea why we pander to these people
All luggage burnt, don't leave the airport, on the next plane home
Make it known world wide that this is what happens if you get caught bringing undeclared into New Zealand
Stuff them

Fuck that. Burn them, send the luggage home. they wont try it again that way!

Originally Posted by Pengy

I was told yesterday that a lot of the newly created Customs roles that came about due to Covid, are due to have contracts expire in September. Coincidence maybe ?

Its MPI/Biosecurity (used to be MAF) who check for bugs and food.

Originally Posted by HG Man

Its MPI/Biosecurity (used to be MAF) who check for bugs and food.

Trust me, Customs have been well utilised to check on Covid protocols .
Yes, it is an MPI job to physically check imports etc, but Customs are very much involved in the some of the process

Originally Posted by LBD

Bit of scare mongering going on in the media, maybe... but what a mess if we did get it in NZ.

The question is, what would happen if FnM then found its way into the wild... Deer, Goats, Chamoi, Thar... we could never be rid of it..... or would we?

Yes the risk to NZ from FMD isn’t new. A bigger worry for the Aussies with an outbreak of it on their back doorstep in Bali, there are plenty of illegal fishing boats in WA and NT waters and they occasionally make land fall. One contaminated bit of meat left behind, wild pig eats it and off we go.
And pigs are the worst species for multiplying the virus and spreading it with more blisters contains virus- if it got here the forest would be nuked green
In this age of craziness, bioterrorism of Aussie or NZ with FMD must be a real concern.

This is a threat that the media can’t actually overstate.

A mate of mine used to work for MAF. Being ex mil he used to run TEWTS for them around possible F&M outbreaks here. In essence a desk based tactical exercise running through possible scenarios and looking at what responses were required, figuring out the logistics, management of borders, culling,compensation, short to medium term economic damage etc etc. The numbers were staggering, would make what these clowns have spent on the flu look like small change.

The Aussies are starting to get serious. Good on them. Shoulda fined him AND spun him around immediately and sent him back.


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/mo...EC7XGXK52PWEM/

Originally Posted by Pengy

Trust me, Customs have been well utilised to check on Covid protocols .
Yes, it is an MPI job to physically check imports etc, but Customs are very much involved in the some of the process

Thats because Customs is lead agency at the border for human health. MPI uses some of Customs computer systems but Customs has nothing to do with food or animal diseases.