We're just going to have a discussion on mRNA technology and livestock and just some of the science behind it and some of the concerns that we have about using this technology in food animals.
For folks like the Cattlemen's Association here, I think the big issue is whether or not they're going to be deploying it into your beef cattle and what that means.
Number one is it going to be safe for the livestock? Number two, is it going to be safe to eat the livestock? And number three, what is going to be the public perception of this if it is adopted in the livestock industry? And I've had probably more calls and more concerns about this issue than anything else from the general public, the non-agricultural public, who is basically our consumer and our patron, and they're very concerned about this.
In terms of deploying it, let's say some guidance comes down, because you know all your animals are tagged and tracked and now they want to electronically tag them are they going to insist that your animals be jabbed before they go to the feedlot, that's a scenario I could see happening, and is that potentially a risk for the consumer? Because the material, the modified mRNA is not a natural product, it's a synthetic product and it has very unusual characteristics, which includes immune suppression, and it includes this difficulty in being degraded, this long half-life, we would call it, we don't know how long it's going to persist in the meat, and it goes all over the body.
In the cattle to deploy this, given all these risks and all these unknowns, it just seems to me that this is something that the Cattlemen's Association would be well-served to basically give a hard no to your legislators and to the USDA and try to knock some sense into these people that they're messing around with markets and consumer issues and a whole lot of unknowns that darn well better be looked at before you start deploying this into your cattle herds for whatever great reason they think, maybe it's going to stop them farting less and impact on global warming.
We're going to wind this up real quick, but a couple of issues that I want to just sort of relate to what I've seen in the human side is we've seen these allied or these groups that are aligned with the agricultural livestock and they become out as pushing this technology, and they're propaganda.
It's not going to be your veterinarian trolling along saying, "Oh, I got this new jab and you ought to use that and it's only going to cost you 10 bucks a cow or whatever." No, they're going to come at you with mandates just like they did with the humans saying you got to vaccinate all your critters as part of their animal tracking, and you know how all that's been going.
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