SH (previous): "SH, "What's wrong with the U.S. market for Canadian beef?"
Sandhusker (in response): "What a totally assinine thing for a US cattle producer to say."
Only if you are a narrow minded R-CULT isolationist that doesn't understand the definition of the word "trade".
BESIDES, THAT QUESTION WAS ASKED FROM A CANADIAN PRODUCER'S PERSPECTIVE YOU @!%@!&*%*!
Damn I get sick of your bullsh*t!
The NAFTA agreement has been signed into law. The consumer outvotes the producer in the United States 98% to 2%. And the R-CULT isolationists like you are a small fraction of that 2%. Your vote on whether or not Canadian producers have access to our markets is virtually irrelevant in the big scheme.
Personally, I don't fear Canadian imports like you do because I don't see Canadian producers any different than Texas producers nor do I overexaggerate the impact of Canadian imports like you do.
You act like everyone should share in your isolationism hypocrisy of wanting to stop imports while you continue to promote exports.
RM: "Meaning: Beef is not safe to eat even if it is tested and less than 24 months. How are BSE positive animals going to be removed from the food chain if BSE testing doesn't assure food safety???????????
Not that I agree with this thinking...just pointing out that you aren't agreeing with yourself."
The positive animals that are removed from the food chain are OVER 30 MONTHS OF AGE WHERE TESTING ACTUALLY DOES SOME GOOD.
We are not testing cattle less than 30 months of age because only a handful between 24 and 30 months would reveal anything anyway.
You have to seperate BSE testing of cattle less than 24 months of age, which is like testing 12 year old boys for prostrate cancer, and the testing of cattle older than 30 months of age where BSE prions are more detectable.
RM: "Labeling and testing are to hold and gain consumer confidence in the beef industry."
BSE testing of cattle
less than 30 months of age is false advertising because it does not assure the safety of that beef from BSE.
RM: " Relying on ONLY ONE MARKET is why the Canadian producers are in situation they are in...but you(and many of them) can't see thru your R-CALF hatred to see that."
What an arrogant statement!
Who are you to tell the Canadians where they should market their cattle.
This is between them and the U.S. consumer as long as they don't threaten the integrity of our beef supply which they do not. R-CULT's lies to the contrary are just that, lies. If they were truthful, consumers would be running from U.S. beef right now. Luckily we have NCBA and USDA to offset R-CULT's lies and luckily the media hasn't seen R-CULT as a credible source of information or Japan would be banning our exports for 7 years and we wouldn't be slaughtering cull cows.
The leverage R-CULT has in this is that NCBA and USDA are not going to remind R-CULT of what they said because it would be damaging to the U.S. beef industry. R-CULT knows that so their end (stopping Canadian live cattle imports) justified their means (lying about the safety of Canadian beef).
~SH~