From: "Geo." 

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
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> But DeHaven of the USDA says it would cost between $25 to $50 per head. At
the $50
> per head figure it would cost $1.5 bil per year for all slaughtered cattle
in the US

500 lbs per cow, so would you be willing to pay an extra $0.10 per pound
for meat? Assuming $2-$4 per pound average at the store and assuming this
cost could be passed on with nobody putting a markup on it, that comes out
to a 2.5-5% increase to insure your family isn't eating infected meat.

Maybe nobody would be willing to pay that prior to this incident but how
about now or after a few people die from it?

Geo.

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