Foot and Mouth

I don't think the fake meat producers are motivated to do it.
Do I worry that some of these leftypooftreehuggingvegetarians on the extreme left of the Greens party would do it deliberately? Yes - this is a very real risk. Along with your typical Greenpeace protestor.
All you need is a lone wolf. Probably off their medication. Would have a well established mental health issue. Probably undiagnosed and definitely un-treated. I'd blame Labour's inability to deliver on sorting mental health if there is an outbreak.

For some of these fanatical vegans who honestly believe meat is murder, well, the opportunity to wipe out the entire red meat industry along with dirty dairying, who could resist that?

I honestly hope the GCSB and SIS are monitoring these fringe nutters. They were too busy spying on the Muslims to spot the white guy planning the massacre. Now we have a situation were fringe elements view Foot and Mouth as the 'Great Reset' (referencing Pol Pot) with regards to only eating plant based food...

Yip, trouble is, the dude that travels from Indonesia to somewhere else then to NZ

It will get here, the government will fuck it up, and the meat n milk industry will be rogered.

And Stalinda will blame someone else.

I think the animal rights groups would be far more inclined than the the vegan community , but then it would mean killing millions of animals so maybe not 

I vaguely recall a Waikato farmer finding rotting animal parts in some PKE quite few years ago when we did a stint in Hamilton . It caused a bit of a mad scramble at MPI if I am remembering correctly 

That is a very interesting story em, not because of the animal parts though.
Both Malaysia and Indo supple PKE - easy - ban Indo PKE and get what we need from Malaysia.

MPI couldn't recall that shipment with the hoof and leg in it, mainly because the distributors mix it all up... well, that will have to stop. We have stupid plastic stickers on all our fruit for traceability, but they can't trace animal products from high risk countries?

They do heat treat and fumigate the PKE. Which them makes me ask we we can't use NZ grown silage, anyway, that is a different question.

I don't know the full economic impact of PKE to NZ, but I would be lobbying for a complete ban on it for a year or two, until Indo sorts its FMD problem. The economic impact to farmers will be fuck all compared to having to cull their herd.
Either that, or just import it from FMD free countries. I don't think this is rocket science. But for it to happen a beuracrate at MPI will have to put their nuts on the line and actually make a call. Sure there will be push pack from the PKE industry and some farmers. The blow back will be around "can't you do your job properly in making PKE safe", but the basic safety matrix is remove, isolate, then PPE last (or however it goes). You don't need all the control measures if you just don't import the shit.

Yes, that McMuffin story was in stuffed yesterday.
I was going to post it on here, how the Aussies are taking firm action and publicising it. We never get those stories from Auckland Airport or NZ Biosecurity.
That is possibly a good thing in that no one is brining any old hamburgers in, or it is a bad thing cause Biosecurity aren't actually finding anything.

I can't see any economic benefit in allowing travel from Indo. At the very least a two week stand-down in a third country. All there is, as far as I know, is surfers, unwashed back packers, and farm workers. The surfers and back packers have no economic benefit. The farm workers? well, who are the highest risk group?