{"id":548,"date":"2011-06-07T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/?p=548"},"modified":"2011-06-07T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:34:45","slug":"bury-our-way-out-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2011\/06\/07\/bury-our-way-out-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bury our way out of foot-and-mouth disease?  Think again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/06\/vt-state1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-554\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/06\/vt-state1-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/06\/vt-state1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/06\/vt-state1.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>To illustrate the importance of considering alternatives to burial as a carcass management option, Lori Miller of USDA APHIS, has made it easy to visualize some mind boggling statistics.\u00a0 Policy-makers and those qualified as incident commanders would do well to take these to heart.\u00a0 I have converted the figures to Vermont equivalents aside from the starting point.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start with a large 100,000 head feedlot in the heart of feedlot country (TX panhandle, OK, KS, and NE).\u00a0 What are the basic disposal capabilities needed?\u00a0 At 1000 lbs per head and waste transport containers with 30-ton capacity, somewhere around 1700 loads would be required to take the animals (if euthanized) to a disposal site.\u00a0 Picture 1700 containers on trucks end-to-end.\u00a0 They would stretch almost half way from Burlington to Montpelier.\u00a0 The trench, if dug one-animal wide (8 ft long per animal), would stretch 151 miles or from Burlington to Brattleboro.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t mentioned the time it would take to dig such a trench, or whether there is available land suitable for burial, or how to manage the leachate.\u00a0 As far as disposal options go, burial is probably not the best choice for carcass management on a large scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To illustrate the importance of considering alternatives to burial as a carcass management option, Lori Miller of USDA APHIS, has made it easy to visualize some mind boggling statistics.\u00a0 Policy-makers and those qualified as incident commanders would do well to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2011\/06\/07\/bury-our-way-out-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-think-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15823,15824,15825,15826],"tags":[15860,15917,551],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmd-news","category-just-my-thoughts","category-news-worthy-mentionables","category-one-health","tag-foot-and-mouth-disease","tag-usda-aphis","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}