Sandbag: "If Japan required a prostate exam, I would not go there but would do everything in my power to see that you and SH got a weekend there together. I'd try to line up an examiner with huge fingers and long nails that was still torked off about losing the war."
ROTFLMAO!!!!! Hahaha!
That was funny even if it was at my expense.
TORA TORA TORA!!!!
Sandbag, you damn hypocrite!
You know if you were the one demanding the test YOU WOULD BE UNDER THE BELIEF THAT THE ECOLI TEST WOULD DETECT ECOLI! If you knew that it didn't, you'd be outraged. Hell, you were bitching about CO2. I know exactly how you'd be. "YOU BE BWAMING DA PACKAH" just like you always do and you know it. Man would I love to make this a topic of discussion with you and me in front of a group of consumers.
Sandbag: "This whole things smells worse than a toilet seat on a tuna boat."
You got that right. Consumers believe when they buy beef that says "BSE TESTED" that the beef is "BSE FREE". You pathetic deceiver you!
Chief,
You bet, the customer is always right. If we can sell them an "ILLUSION OF SAFETY", GET 'R DONE!!!!!
How pathetic!
Conman,
Why do you refuse to address the fact that bse prions would not be revealed in cattle under 24 months of age????
Why do you divert that fact?
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL YOU ARE SIMPLY SELLING AN "ILLUSION OF SAFETY", nothing more, nothing less! True to your lying ways.
Fedup,
All you did is divert the issue.
WOULD YOU SUPPORT USDA APPROVING ECOLI TESTING THAT WOULD NOT REVEAL ECOLI???
YES OR NO????
Call me the next time you get by this way if you want to discuss these issues face to face. I'd welcome the opportunity.
Since you diverted the hypocrisy issue, I'll return the favor by answering your questions.
Fedup: "My questions: Why are you so concerned with a test that can do absolutely no harm, yet have not expressed a single word of outrage over the possibility of eating burger with the $hit ground up in it & the further cut back of inspections?"
You got nothing here!
The issue is not whether or not a bse test will do any harm, THE ISSUE IS WHETHER OR NOT IT'S JUSTIFIED. In this case, it's not! It capitalizes on the fact that Japanese consumers believe "BSE TESTED" means "BSE FREE". You food safety hypocrites support an "ILLUSION OF SAFETY".
As far as USDA inspection of beef, I just read a recent report from the FDA that reported that the cases of food pathogens is down not up. So much for your "gloom and doom" report. Tell that to your group.
Further, I support those branded beef programs that require certain roughages to be fed prior to slaughter to reduce the possibilities of ecoli contamination.
I support the large evil corporate packers pouring millions of dollars into food safety technology such as steam vaccing, pasteurization, and cryovac packaging with the understanding that food safety problems are an INDUSTRY PROBLEM.
Fedup: "Also, what if you went to your local store and wanted beef from the US or Canada but didn’t want Mexican beef? Should you have a choice?"
You got nothing here either!
If I wanted source verified beef, I could buy source verified beef that not only told me what country the beef was from but what ranch, what vaccination program, what feed program, and anything else I wanted to know. The free enterprise system is already doing what your "PLEASE GOVERNMENT, SAVE US FROM OURSLELVES AGAIN" flawed mandate will not do.
Determining origination of beef does not require a flawed government mandate that prohibited the means to enforce it and segregates 5% of our US beef consumption as a novelty item at the cost of labeling all beef resulting in lower cattle prices to cover the cost.
Fedup: "Or is it none of your damn business what you feed your family?"
That doesn't even make sense! Why wouldn't it be MY business what I feed MY family. Good grief!
Fed up: "BTW, 99% of the meat I buy is purchased from locals."
So what the hell is your problem?
Try to put more thoughts into your argument this time or perhaps it's time to once again give a long discertation on the manner in which I post and how I have recruited members for R-CALF and on and on and on to once again divert the issue.
~SH~