Petting Zoo a terror threat?

Today's Herald posted a story declaring the petting zoo at the Bluegrass fair in Lexington had been found to be too dangerous and was being scrapped. I don't know for sure, but I wonder if the previous exercises demonstrating the use of goats as a means to spread bio agents turned out to be perhaps, too terrifying.

Looking for the money quote, the Herald does not disappoint:

"Animals wallow around in feces," Atkinson said. "Then kids touch the animals, kids stick their fingers in their mouths -- and the fun begins." Contact with animals is a rarer cause of E. coli infection -- such illness is more often caused by fecal contamination of undercooked ground beef or by ingesting human feces, resulting from a lack of handwashing after using the bathroom.

I guess I'm a guy who still finds it funny to talk about feces, especially when 'wallowing' is also discussed.