With respect to your plea, the point is registered. Certainly when I was the regional director of the conservation branch of Environment Canada in B.C., we used to raise much the same point on a regular basis. An opportunity for closer collaboration certainly exists, and it is something we will be pursuing.
With respect to disease, essentially it doesn't matter what livestock it is; if you take a whole bunch of animals and jam them together, the potential risk....
Am I talking too fast?