blackjack said:
...oldtimers last post is total bullsh!t ... i live in the area of this post feed ban cow he speaks of... the farmer is a purebred producer so he had a record of every animal and the why and who he sold to...
This comes from CFIA
The birth cohort was determined to comprise 349 animals. The trace-out investigation of the birth cohort located 41 live animals that were subsequently euthanized, sampled and tested negative for BSE. These animals were disposed of by incineration. Because birth cohort cattle would be five-to-seven years old today, most had previously been slaughtered or had died of natural causes. The other 308 animals were traced as follows:
273 animals were confirmed to be dead or slaughtered in Canada
32 animals had died on the farm of origin
three animals were deemed untraceable because of inadequate records.
273 animals that could/probably went into the human food chain and/or back into livestock feed within that cluster area- 3 they have no idea where they went..Could be sitting in an Alberta corral waiting to come south and spread more disease....
And apparently CFIA doesn't report often to OIE- because OIE reports 249 that were still untraceable- but that doesn't surprise me of OIE, since they're just yes people to the industry......[b][/b]