Sandblaster,
You keep hammering on this Creekstone issue over and over and over and you haven't brought one stitch of evidence to suggest that the Japanese Parliament would even accept testing MAKING YOUR POINT MOOT!!!!
You just keep chasing ghosts and being a chronic USDA bitcher.
How stupid is it to support a test that reveals nothing???
THAT'S DECEPTION ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT!!!
Japan has moved away from 100% testing. WHY???
BECAUSE THERE IS NO SCIENCE TO SUPPORT IT!!!
Sandblaster: "Want to talk about stupidity, how about supporting a policy that runs counter to stated mission statements?"
Whose mission statement agress to consumer deception under the guise of "FREE MARKETING"?
Sandblaster: "How about claiming to embrace less government intervention, support value adding of products, and preaching the values of exports while falling in line and prohibiting exactly that?"
NCBA doesn't support "PLEASE GOVERNMENT, SAVE ME FROM MYSELF" flawed "M"COOL laws, communist packer bans, or lying about the safety of Canadian beef. That's R-CULT's claim to fame!
What the hell does the false advertising of 100% testing have to do with value added. That's not value added! That's consumer deception!
Sandblaster: "How flipping stupid is it to keep supporting a policy that has proven to be a failure?"
You'll have to ask R-CULT about that.
I have no idea why an organization would paint themselves into a corner by lying about the safety of Canadian beef and negatively impacting our Japenese exports.
Sandblaster: "How tremendously hypocritical is it to value our own soverignity, and then trample on another nations?"
How did we "trample on other nations soveriegnty"????
By not deceiving their consumers with a test that wouldn't reveal anything?????
Sandblaster: "Where is the intelligence of a post in telling another nation that they need to change their laws and base them on "sound science"?"
Where is the intelligence in deceiving our foreign customers into believing that BSE UTM tested beef is safer when those tests won't reveal anything in cattle younger than 24 months?
Countries negotiate all the time.
In that process, the latest discussions involved age verification with Japan basically acknowledging the stupidity of your 100% testing position.
Hahaha! Japan has basically agreed that 100% BSE testing is not the best route and your still arguing for it. What gives you the right to tell Japan what they need???? LOL!
Sandblaster: "What kind of high-headed marketing strategies completly ignore cultural differences in international dealing?"
What the hell does deceptive testing have to do with cultural differences? You sound like Bill Clinton now.
Sandblaster: "Where is any kind of rational reasoning in stating testing would set a dangerous precidence of giving a country something we are not giving our domestic customers, and then negotiating a policy where we promise to do exactly that?"
What are you babbling about now?
Sandblaster: "How much money needs to be left on the table before you get it?"
There's nothing to get! 100% BSE testing is consumer deception when it won't reveal anything.
Sandblaster: "How entrenched in Japan do you want the Aussies to get before you get it?"
You can credit that to narrow minded R-CULT for suggesting that Canadian beef is unsafe when we have Canadian cattle in our mix and taking Canadian boxed beef currently.
You can credit that to narrow minded R-CULT for suggesting that SRM removal, increased BSE surveilance, removal of BSE positives from the food chain, and the feed ban doesn't assure beef safety!
Sandblaster: "How much to we have to tork off their government and citizens before you get it?"
Oh listen to you! The supreme R-CULT trade negotiator that can't even bring the proof that the Japanese government would even take our BSE tested beef. JUST CREATE THE "ILLUSION" THAT THEY WOULD.
THE GREAT "SANDBEENIE", MASTER ILLUSIONIST!
You are the one making a complete fool out of himself defending consumer deception when 100% BSE testing is not even on the table AND YOU CAN'T PROVE IT EVER WAS AN OPTION!
You got nothing here, just like always!
~SH~