Murgen,

 

In my response to Agman I was talking about Pickett, not the border closing.  I have real reservations about USDA on their ability to call the game when we know they are biased.  With the talk on this board there are serious questions about your government's ability to regulate the packers up there also. 

On this question, I am totally with the consumer.  A Candian calf can not be any different than a Montana calf except for  argument purposes.  Rkaiser has already shed his opinion of possible reasons the border was closed in BSE and I can see his point.  In both the Canadian and U.S. cases I really don't believe the consumer can trust either govt. when the committees with oversight into the ag. departments are getting so much money from the packers. 

It is really crafty how, if you believe rkaiser, the packers closed the border for a period of time and then gets to blame the whole thing on R-Calf.  I would suspect that the USDA has problems with 100% testing of cattle because more cases would show up and they would have to deal with it.  Probably the same with Canada. 

It is funny that most of the BSE cases have been traced to cattle being fed the offal that Jason I believe(no disrespect here), called efficiency at the packing plants.  These guys really know how to escape judgement for their actions.  If BSE could be traced back to this cash cow they developed why should they not pay for every bit of damage?  I guess packers being responsible for their actions is too much to ask for.  I guess only producers like you and Jason should be responsible for being efficient enough and responsible enough to make it in the market or go out of business.