I thought Canada could have 2 per year per million OTM animals,  of which we have 5.5 million and still be minimal risk according to the OIE  11 per year 

I thought this was a consumer now I read he is a 5th generation rancher but I guess he is a consumer right Haymaker

"Simply increase fear" thanks to R-CALF  "hurt the beef industry" Thanks to R-CALF  "resulting in few cattle and cattlemen who might want to least MY LAND. Again I thought you said this was a CONSUMER  Looks to me as if he has something to loss and is out to protect it with what ever will justify the end result.

Could this be because of the R-CALF lies?

Just what industry does he fear Canada, we've had feed ban  since 1997 and according to USDA it is robust and has Good compliance too.  And Canada doesn't accept downers for food that is why our three cases didn't make it into our food chain.

The numbers

Cash bought--65.4%

Grid cattle----15.5%

Contract -----8.4%

packer owned-10.7%

Enough said

That is strange as the CFIA told the Canadian ranchers that if we didn't tested 30,000 4Ds to find the true prevalence we would have to test 100 times as many healthy animals or we would loss our minimal risk status according to OIE rules.

By OUR rules I take it he means US rules. What rules is he talking about the feed ban rules, the SRM removal rule, the no downers in the human food chain rule, the aggressive surveillance rule which one does he mean as I thought the USDA  did handle these things it is the US beef industry that is having a problem with the rules and complying to them.  As for TRADING PRACTICES the USDA is trying to set rules following the science that the rest of the world seems to believe it is just to bad R-CALF and one Federal Judge think they know more that the OIE's expert scientists 

You got a really live non bias consumer here Haymaker  :roll: