The Canadian swine and pork industries have a huge interest in preventing foreign animal diseases from entering Canada. Today, Canadian producers sell their products to more than 90 different countries worldwide. An outbreak of a foreign animal disease such as foot-and-mouth disease would cause a negative economic impact of over $45 billion! In Canada it has been more than 40 years since an outbreak, with hog cholera in the 60s being the most recent. The key concern for producers is what is the compensation for destruction of infected animals, preventative stamping out in control zones, and loss of income during the interval before restocking is permitted. An adequate compensation program must compensate maximums per animal, compensate provisions must be equitable across species, differences in values between commercial and breeding values must be recognized, must be based on market intelligence and data, and allowances must be provided to account for the length of time before the affected farms are able to once again generate revenue.