Impact of foot and mouth disease felt by everyone in community if it entered Tasmania

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Updated August 10 2022 - 7:38am, first published 7:35am
Meat prices, including beef, pork and lamb, would rise if foot and mouth outbreak occurred in Australia Picture: Stephen Leonardi
Meat prices, including beef, pork and lamb, would rise if foot and mouth outbreak occurred in Australia Picture: Stephen Leonardi

Meat would become scarce and its price would rise exponentially if foot and mouth disease took hold, but farmers would bear the full brunt of the social and economic fallouts, says Tasmania's peak agricultural organisation.

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