shorttage of veterinarian and food safety

In America, shortage of food animal veterinarians is a threat to public health. Due to the nature of food animal veterinarian work, many graduates from veterinarian school choose to work on small animals in a clinic rather than working on large food animals such as cattles and sheeps. First, the work is backbreaking and messy. Two, the pay is assumed lower than its counterpart, which is a clinical veterinarian. As a result, it is a 4% shortage in the food animal veterinarians supply. The consequence of this shortage can be severe: Salmonella in an untreated dairy herd could be spread by workers who come into contact with feces. Similarly, people who defeather or slaughter chickens infected with a certain strain of avian flu could get others sick.
-- Diseases like anthrax are hard to detect and spread quickly, so a farmer likely wouldn't notice an illness until many animals were sick, potentially wiping out a whole herd.
-- Foot and mouth disease could enter the United States through imported animals or meat. Because the disease can spread rapidly by air, it could hit multiple producers if not detected, leading to a regional outbreak.
Due to this severe consequences it might cause, a solution to increase the food animal veterianians is urgent. Department of argriculture should come up some incentive programs to attract college graduate to go into this field. I believe a viable solution to increase the supply of food animal veterinarians is the way to ensure the food safety for the general public in America.