7 research outputs found
Value of animal traceability systems in managing a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in southwest Kansas
Concerns regarding management of animal
disease and related perceptions about food
safety have escalated substantially in recent
years. Terrorist attacks of September 2001,
discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE) in a dairy cow in December 2003 in
Washington, subsequent discoveries of BSEinfected animals in Texas in 2005 and Alabama in 2006, and recent worldwide outbreaks of highly contagious animal diseases (i.e., foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] and Avian influenza) have made apparent the need for animal traceability in U.S. livestock production and marketing. In addition, animal identification systems are rapidly developing throughout the world, effectively increasing international trading standards. One way to combat and more quickly arrest spread of contagious diseases is through animal ID. Capability to rapidly identify locations where an animal has been affects the ability to isolate, trace, and arrest spread of a disease. Animal ID systems are rapidly developing throughout the world and the U.S. is behind many other countries in this development. Efforts to develop animal ID systems in the U.S. were launched prior to the initial BSE
discovery, but they gained considerable momentum afterwards. The National Animal
Identification System is intended to identify
specific animals in the U.S. and record their
movement over their lifetime. The goal is to
enable a 48-hour trace-back of the movements
of any diseased or exposed animal. This will
limit spread of animal diseases by enabling
faster trace-back of infected animals; limit
production losses due to disease presence; reduce the costs of government control, intervention, and eradication; and minimize potential international trade losses3.
The purpose of this research is to determine
the economic implications of increased
improvements in animal ID systems in the
event of an FMD outbreak in southwest Kansas.
Specifically, a disease spread model is
used to determine the probable spread of a hypothetical FMD outbreak. Results from the
disease-spread model are integrated into an
economic framework to determine economic impacts
Strategic Interactions Among Private and Public Efforts When Preventing and Stamping Out a Highly Infectious Animal Disease
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals
Understanding the global economic importance of farmed animals to society is essential as a baseline for decision making about future food systems. We estimated the annual global economic (market) value of live animals and primary production outputs, e.g., meat, eggs, milk, from terrestrial and aquatic farmed animal systems. The results suggest that the total global market value of farmed animals ranges between 1.61 and 3.3 trillion USD (2018) and is expected to be similar in absolute terms to the market value of crop outputs (2.57 trillion USD). The cattle sector dominates the market value of farmed animals. The study highlights the need to consider other values of farmed animals to society, e.g., finance/insurance value and cultural value, in decisions about the sectorâs future