Murgen said:
OT-obviously the same safeguards put in place by both Countries at the same time did not work totally in protecting NA, from BSE, so you need to adapt and change to address the current situation.
US producer response to US beef Indusrty change
Well Murgen the safeguards worked from 1986 when BSE was discovered until 2005 to protect us why should we change the rules now. :roll:
We never had a problem before by feed chicken litter and condemned pet food that contain ruminant renderings to our herd Why should we stop now Besides it will cost to much to dispose of these products if we can't feed them to our herd :roll:
We never had to clean up our feed system before so why should we do it now just keep Canadian SRM's out of the US and we will be OK. :wink: :roll:
We have been branding cattle for over a hundred years it worked then why change to a national ID system :roll:
Even though we don't trust the packers as far as we can throw them our export markets should just take their word for where the beef came from and how old the animals are. :roll:
We shouldn't have to be burdened with the cost to prove it to them with a National ID system that can age verifiy by birth date :roll:
Even though the BSE test is not accurate enough to pick up a positive BSE animal if she isn't showing clinical signs or is under 30 months of age we should just test everything it's only a $20 test and then we won't lose the price of the SRM's at slaughter by having to remove them to insure the beef is safe for consumers :roll:
We could then go back to feeding them to our herd and consumers and just take a change that the test wasn't wrong and we aren't spreading the disease even farther :roll:
Just have the packers (the guys we as producers don't trust) label the Beef, even though they have no way of verifying the label, in the grocery store. The consumer don't need to know that the food service beef they eat is imported :roll:
As long as we label it the consumer can eat at their own risk and we don't have to bother to make sure our beef is as safe as we told them it was the Safest Beef in the WORLD and they should just believe us :roll:
Isn't that about all the answer we have heard about changes to the US beef industry oh I missed the biggest one
The Washington cow was found in our food chain and her SRM's could have entered our system either into the food chain or possibly the non compliant feed system but as soon as we found out she was born and raised in Canada we knew we had nothing to worry about in our system. We are still BSE free even though our trading partners don't believe it :roll: