Recent content by doug

IDing animals is used as a potential traceback of any disease not just BSE.TB , bruccellosis,Foot 'n mouth to mention a few. The Canadian system is in place to protect us from ourselves as well as foreign sources. The tagging goes on routinely around our farm and the work or cost hasn't bust us...

Thanks for that . It seems that R-CALFers are a bit slow to find fault with this

The level of prions necessary to infect is speculation, and the ability to contract CJD from muscle cuts and blood is speculation. For that matter, the ability to infect cattle by feeding them SRM's is speculation, since it hasn't been proven in a lab under controlled conditions. The ability...

It seems awfully coincidental that the Saudi's put a ban on Canadian beef, 21 months after the fact, at the same time opening up to US beef. Seems to me more of a trade issue than a health concern. :???: