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"confirming that the vaccination policy is haphazard and ineffective" Not exactly the kind of words I want associated with a country the USDA is about to approve fresh meat and live runinants from!

I'll say it again this is the issue to call your congress members about. Now we have legislation introduced don't put it off, make sure your congressman is sponsoring these bills.

ATFA Commends U.S. Cattlemen's Association on Bill Addressing FMD in Argentine Cattle Legislation called "Important first Step" by ATFA Executive Director Thursday, July 10, 2008 (WASHINGTON, DC) - American Task Force Argentina (ATFA) commends the organization's coalition member, United...

Hmmm, Funny how all those fish get processed and labeled by COL and there wasn't all this hype. I wonder why it is so much with beef?

HSUS is well organized. My senator's office told me that they received over 100 phone calls a day on the horse slaughter issue. I beleive well organized groups (agriculture & consumer) did accomplish getting COOL in the 2002 farm bill, it was the fastest moving piece of legislation of the time...

HSUS has absolutely no creditability to me. Their goal is to end animal agriculture. They have ended horse slaughter in this country. They are united and effective. Any guess at what animal species their next target is??? Wake up ranchers this is your heads up! They exploited the absolute worse...

Thanks for the nanny-government clarification. I get it now. Also I don't think more testing of toys and other products is going to improve anything. Until consumers quit buying stuff from China nothing will change. Hope food production doesn't move there too.

Your right Sandhusker free trade is pushing this. Food safety among other things have continually taken a back seat. But it seems like this should be the line in the sand issue because it is so much risk for agriculture to take on. Plus Argentina's track record of following through with what...

The thing with Arentina is through other business dealings have ticked off a lot of other industries in the US. I think it is time to get together with some of them to put this rule to rest. Obviously they have put it on the back burner for over a year hoping no one will notice. Well looks like...

I find this whole subject very frustrating. I agree the plan of HSUS is not to stop here at all. I beleive it is high time to find a hero in congress on this issue. I've talked to my congressmen and they have this laid back approach, " yeah, that is a real bad thing." and then it is on to the...

I hope it is not lean beef from South America check off $ are going to promote. The year old rule for importing fresh, no doubt, lean beef from FMD free regions of Argentina is still waiting for USDA to take action on. If it passes we will undoubtably have a lot more lean beef on the market...

Sounds way to familiar!

The US does not and should not regionalize for trade with other countries. Disease control and trade are seperate. South America is dealing with a very contagious disease (FMD) and wants to regionalize areas for trade. Fresh beef and cattle trade with the US is the goal. No, I don't think...

No hunting. no tourism. That is a great point. I bet International wildlife groups would be a huge help in changing this rule. Is anyone a member?

So if we let USDA's Agentina regionalization rule go through as written, arn't we subjecting ourselves to the same risk that the Irish are? We need to stop that rule!

We regionalized in the US already for animal disease control. But to do it for the purpose of exporting to other countries? How far would the we get if we tried to do that with exports??? I don't think our customers would appreciate it!