chuckie said:their program is all fine and good, but how will it get back any of it's Asian exports? if the asian market is requiring cattle 20 mo. or less of age, how does the company prove that? "US born and raised" doesn't guarantee age, and this country doesn't have any sort of tracing system for age requirements..?
Oldtimer said:chuckie said:their program is all fine and good, but how will it get back any of it's Asian exports? if the asian market is requiring cattle 20 mo. or less of age, how does the company prove that? "US born and raised" doesn't guarantee age, and this country doesn't have any sort of tracing system for age requirements..?
Chuckie- we have signed affidavits to verify age, origin, state and county pastured, feedstuffs, vaccinations and antibiotics....Prior to the Washington cow closure of our exports, Japan was already requiring and taking these affidavits for the beef they were importing....
chuckie said:ot, if all those affadavits (previously required and provided...) were all it took to open up the asian export market, why aren't they accepting them now?
and to whom were they provided? the packer sure never saw them and the packer is who does the actual exporting of the beef.
i guess my question is, if the cow/calf guy has all this documentation (and has had all this time), what happens to it? the feedlot trashes it? and if the feedlot has, in the past, trashed it, then it evidently wasn't required by asia to export the product. because most packers don't have any such thing, never have had, from the the feedlot.
prior to the washington cow closure of the export markets, if the packers who provided the product didn't require/have the documentation, where did the asians get it from?
i just don't get it! :roll:
~SH~ said:Sandhusker: "Why is the USDA allowing them to do this? Seems they are inferring something there. Aren't they setting a dangerous pecident that everybody will have to follow?"
SH, "Still bawling up an empty tree. These claims can be backed. They are not false advertising."
A claim that Beef is BSE tested can also be backed.
SH,"100% BSE testing, THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THE JAPANESE PARLIAMENT WOULD EVEN ALLOW, is false advertising. YES FALSE ADVERTISING by creating the "ILLUSION" of safety.
Don't yell at me - it's the Japanese's law!
SH, "You soiled your pants again."
yada yada yada
~SH~