It is imperative if we are going to stop VEE. and if we are going to have foolproof assurance that the very dangerous African swine fever will not spread to our country. that we develop a cooperative animal disease relationship and program with Mexico paralleling what was done to stamp out foot and mouth disease in that country. Legislation may be needed. as Department witnesses told us yesterday. but its absence does not prevent moving ahead right now. Nor does it prevent immediate emergency measures to guard our shores against accidental importation of the dread African swine fever via pork products that might be in the luggage or belongings of Cuban refugees who come to the mainland. It takes only a strip of bacon. a piece of bologna or pork scrap from Cuba to bring it in. My report to the Agriculture Committee follows:
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