[fabsroman]

Well put, I will agree with what you have said about the government. However, industries usually start without regualtion and regulation usually comes afterward when a government finds out about the industry and decides to regulate it. I seriously doubt that the government had game farm regulations in place before the first game farm was created. The regulations were more likely the result of the government trying to regulate already existing game farms.

The issues caused by CWD are probably the same type of issues that we could see with the Avian Flu. If it hits the poultry farms, should the birds be destroyed immediately? Probably! Do you think the government should reimburse the poultry farm owners for it? Probably not.

We can even take this a step further. Should the government be held responsible for damage caused to a farmer's crop by wild deer? We do have that issue here in Maryland. The government gives the farmer crop damage permits, but it doesn't pay for the damage caused by the animals.

Now, here is an interesting thought, could some type of insurance be purchased by the producers just in case their herds came down with some type of disease?

The government cannot fix everything. Government should pass laws to protect the public at large. That is probably what the regulations against the producers are for. Same thing with the Code of Ethics I deal with. Granted, governments also want to foster business to keep the economy going. The hunting business in Wisconsin brings in $1 billion a year to the state. How would it affect the state if its entire deer herd came down with CWD? Is it worth the monetary loss that this guy is going to sustain? How many other people throughout the state, and possibly the nation, could be affected by this one person's actions?

I look at the bigger picture, not just the small picture of how it affects this one guy, or this one industry, but the nation as a whole. After we find the first case of avian bird flu in a poultry farm in the United States, do you think we should hem and haw for 3 1/2 years trying to figure out the worth of the poultry, or should they be exterminated immediately and the monetary issue determined later? Do we wait to see if this disease might spread to other poultry farms, or do we exterminate the birds at once?

If tort reform would help the nation as a whole, which I think it will, do we worry about the personal injury attorneys that will be out of a job because they did not diversify, or do we pass tort reform laws that help the entire nation? There will always be a small group that government cannot appease, but such is life is it is for the greater good of the people.