On vulnerability of US food system: North Carolina ships 20,000 animals [hogs] a day to other states
On vulnerability of US food system: North Carolina ships 20,000 animals [hogs] a day to other states. Those movements are not centrally tracked. It could take up to 10 days to discover and confirm an outbreak [of diseases like foot and mouth in pigs] by which time the disease would have probably spread across much of the nation.
Source: Elsner, Alan, Reuters, 1/20/03