Purdue University Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary Homeland Security http://vet.purdue.edu/biosecurity/vetHomelandProgram.php
WTF. Really? How berkeleying arbitrary and weird is that?
Purdue University Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary Homeland Security http://vet.purdue.edu/biosecurity/vetHomelandProgram.php
WTF. Really? How berkeleying arbitrary and weird is that?
So basically you'd be the bioterror pet detective?
The movie PCU taught me you can major in Gameboy if you know how to bullE36 M3.
Not at all. In a crisis situation involving a city, state, or the country, who helps manage/deal with a significant part of our food supply (animals)?
This person apparently. On top of that, its also a veterinary program which would do the person pretty well by itself.
So overall, I still think a BofA in virtually anything is more useless 
"Purdue's a fine school for a backwater state like Indiana."
In today's production agriculture, security is an issue, I'd expand it beyond veterinary issues. Biosecurity of all foods is and will become an even larger issue.
I thought this was going to be something totally different. I was ready to tell about all the car stereos, lift kits, and exhaust systems I know of that Pell Grants have paid for.
Odd the feds would want to use someone with this degree over someone who is a veterinarian, but I can imagine in non-emergency situations this person would be used for audits?
Graduate Certificate. I would assume that folks going for this are already veterinarians.
I expected there to be more of a focus on chickens.
isn't there already a border collie patrol to address these concerns?
Ummm I am familar with this field.
Bird flu isn't that scary but imagine a weaponized version that destroys 50% of the chicken population in the North American continent in a few days with another 25% culled over the next few weeks. No Mcnuggets and no Chik fil a. The interconnection between chicken production to animal feed to our own tables would mean a massive impact to the USA. Combine that with a coordinated attack on cattle/cows in south america and the world food markets would begin to destabilize.
We won't get it until it hits us hard.
It's to protect our dogs and cats from some terrible disease that wipes them out and leaves mankind with no companion pets. If that happened, we'd have to resort to finding another animal for companions. Perhaps primates? Then, they could be a companion AND learn to perform certain tasks for us. Maybe learn enough language to understand basic commands.
So, basically, it's degree to prevent this:
-Rob
In reply to bigdaddylee82:
Or creating more niches to extract more money from/give career moochers errr, I mean "scholars" something else to spend money they'll never repay on?
The Chinese are already employing them for homeland security.
Maybe they assist with thethat California chicken massacre case.
Is this for the dogs that shoot bees out of its mouth?
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