From a beef standpoint, I'd have to concur with the person who wrote to you. Beef animals, by nature, tend to be quite large, obviously, so the sheer logistics of shooting an animal, bleeding it out, and somehow transporting it to a federal facility, if that's what's required, would be quite a strain, I think, especially if you look at environment and distance. Our cattle are all out on pasture. If I were to euthanize an animal that was two or three miles from home, what would I be looking at in terms of the transport of that animal, either ante-mortem or post-mortem?
To your first point, I do think that right now food safety is a very fragile thing. We've noticed that in the beef industry with regard to BSE and everything that's gone on, and all the money that's been spent at slaughterhouses to address the so-called BSE issues for international trade.
I think this runs the risk of simply compounding an existing fragile situation.