Hanta Yo,
Thank you for being part of the forward thinking, factual based segment of this industry and stepping apart from the blamers.
OCM: "This action was consistent with existing directives. Continuing this lawsuit was a question addressed to the board of directors. The decision was to continue.
In fact I'll even take a little credit for it. For reasons that don't matter I was on a personal phone call to a director. He expressed chagrin that there was some thought being given to halting the "Canadian border lawsuit". I gave him my reasons for continuing. He thought my reasons were excellent. Apparently, he passed them on to the board of directors. A different director called me later to thank me for what I had told the other guy. This director said that my arguments were well received by the board and that they likely made a difference in what was decided. So R-CALF continued with the request for refiling."
Good choice OCM! You'll never win it anyway and the more money R-CALF wastes on their frivilous lawsuits, the more people will see them for the backwards thinking organization they are.
The absolute stupidist political move I have ever seen in my life was R-CALF risking the integrity of 80% of our U.S. beef consumption to stop the importation of 4% - 5% of our U.S. beef consumption by lying about BSE.
It's no surprise that you would be part of influencing such a stupid decision. I'd love to have you explain to a jury how Canadian beef can be "contaminated" and "high risk" due to BSE in their native herd and U.S. beef be the "safest beef in the world due to our firewalls" after we had BSE in our herd. I'd love to hear you compare our efforts of BSE testing to Canada's efforts. You'd get dizzy spinning in your chair trying to explain the difference in precautionary measures and explaining why our export markets should treat the U.S. any different.
AND FOR WHAT???
Canada would simply absorb that same portion of our export market. It's not like you are going to remove Canadian beef from the world market. What we would gain by stopping Canadian imports we would eventually lose in our export markets. That's how smart you guys are.
First, you don't know enough about the impact of imports to make a rational decision and then your not smart enough to understand the consequences of your actions. What a sad state of affairs.
~SH~