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Meat from Mycoplasma bovis infected cows to hit supermarkets
The meat from the 22,000 cows being culled due to Mycoplasma bovis will end up in supermarkets.
MPI has announced the mass cull of beasts from infected farms in a bid to rid the country of the disease.
Mycoplasma bovis makes the cows sick but doesn't affect their by-products meat and milk.
Federated Farmers Southland meat and wool chair Bernadette Hunt told Mike Hosking this disease is everywhere else in the world, except Norway - and prior to this outbreak, New Zealand.
"Those animals are in the food chain along with the milk and there is no problem. It has been around for a very long time."
LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH MIKE HOSKING ABOVE
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By Newstalk ZBThe meat from the 22,000 cows being culled due to Mycoplasma bovis will end up in supermarkets.
MPI has announced the mass cull of beasts from infected farms in a bid to rid the country of the disease.
Mycoplasma bovis makes the cows sick but doesn't affect their by-products meat and milk.
Federated Farmers Southland meat and wool chair Bernadette Hunt told Mike Hosking this disease is everywhere else in the world, except Norway - and prior to this outbreak, New Zealand.
"Those animals are in the food chain along with the milk and there is no problem. It has been around for a very long time."
LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH MIKE HOSKING ABOVE