{"id":166,"date":"2010-03-08T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-10-02T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:45:06","slug":"australian-imports-of-beef-from-countries-with-bse-mad-cow-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/australian-imports-of-beef-from-countries-with-bse-mad-cow-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian imports of beef from countries with BSE (Mad Cow disease)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The good news:<\/strong> Tony Burke has just announced that due to public concern, there will be a 2 year delay on allowing the importation of beef from countries where BSE (Mad Cow) cases have been recorded. (Clearly, the general public are brighter than those who thought this was a good idea.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bad news:<\/strong> the delay is so a &#8216;risk assessment&#8217; can be completed (presumably they mean an assessment of the risk to the health of the Australian public &amp; to livestock, or maybe it&#8217;s to assess the likely health of the Federal Labor government, if they allow this idiocy to go ahead?). Firstly, what a waste of money (yet another report); and secondly- any risk is too large a risk. Any time human beings, politics and large sums of money are combined, the risks are far greater than would otherwise be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Save the cash Tony, and declare this stupid idea a dead dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: Tony Burke has just announced that due to public concern, there will be a 2 year delay on allowing the importation of beef from countries where BSE (Mad Cow) cases have been recorded. (Clearly, the general public are brighter than those who thought this was a good idea.) The bad news: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[143,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}