MAD COW DISEASE, AND U.S. BEEF TRADE
MAD COW DISEASE, CJD, TSE, SOUND SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL
Mad cow ban lifted amid legal threat Story Added : 23rd October 2009
Trade officials say Australia was at risk of international legal action if it did not change its policy on beef imports from countries affected by mad cow disease.
A blanket ban on imports from those countries will be lifted, but all beef will still be subject to close checks.
The Federal Opposition says it will put Australia's beef industry and disease-free status in jeopardy.
But Tim Yeend from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has told a Senate estimates hearing there were legal risks in leaving the policy unchanged.
"It is worth noting that Canada has just recently initiated a dispute against Korea in this precise area," he said.
"So I would say that there's a high level of risk, given that these countries have been raising the issue repeatedly over a number of years in WTO (World Trade Organisation) disputes."
http://www.efarming.com.au/News/agricultural/23/10/2009/75188/mad-cow-ban-lifted-amid-legal-threat.html
Threats stop 'mad cow' ban
David McKenzie
October 26, 2009
AUSTRALIA has scrapped its blanket ban on beef imports from "mad cow'' countries as a result of trade threats, the beef industry has revealed. ...snip...END
http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2009/10/26/126745_national-news.html
Free Trade with Taiwan Is Long Overdue
August 15, 2007
by John J. Tkacik, Jr. and Daniella Markheim Backgrounder #2061
Although Congress has allowed trade promotion authority (TPA) to expire, this paradoxically presents Congress with an opportunity to consider a country-specific initiative that both the majority and minority should find attractive—a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan. Among other things, a U.S.–Taiwan FTA would increase U.S. auto, rice, poultry, and livestock exports and open a significant new market for new research medicines....snip...END
http://www.heritage.org/Research/tradeandeconomicfreedom/bg2061.cfm
Beef Blockade Risks U.S.-Japan Trade War Even as food industry asks for American beef. Compiled by staff Published: May 1, 2006 USA Today reports that a possible trade war looms over the U.S.- Japan beef dispute. Since Japan reimposed a ban on all U.S. beef on Jan. 20 after an improper shipment of veal, frustrations have mounted as officials on both sides work to resume trade.
"It was a stupid mistake, but it's a mistake that's stopped in its tracks a (multi) billion-dollar industry," says J. Thomas Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan. "You don't want beef to set off a trade war between the United States and Japan... This has the potential for being very damaging to the relationship. It's already had a corrosive effect."
Japanese officials took a hard line on U.S. beef imports, demanding an explanation for the last export error and requiring Japanese inspections of American beef facilities. U.S. lawmakers are losing patience, with one senator demanding trade resumption by June 1....SNIP...END
http://californiafarmer.com/story.aspx?s=8165&c=10
Japan Questions U.S. BSE Firewalls, Trade Resumption Still Far Off Food Safety Commission fears Britain-type situation will occur in U.S. beef since meat and bone meal isn't banned from all animal feed.
Compiled by staff Published: Aug 25, 2005 ' animal feed controls to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy are under fire from and independent panel in Japan.
Japan's Food and Safety Commission says a U.S. regulation allowing for the use of meat-and-bone meal from cattle to be used in other animal feeds is risky. The panel members are tasked with determining the safety of U.S. beef before trade can resume between the two countries.
Reuters reports that panel member Tetsuyuki Kitamo says, "We cannot completely rule out the possibility that the situation in the United States may become similar to what happened in Britain."
"Kazuya Yamanouchi, another panel member, proposed that the panel make a risk assessment on U.S. beef that included the possibility that BSE could spread," Reuters reports. "Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, the panel chairman, said he personally did not expect BSE to spread, but added that he would consider the proposal by next meeting."
The next meeting hasn't been set on when the Commission will again look at the issue.
http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx?s=27087&c=17
Japan suspends US plant's beef amid mad cow fears
The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. TOKYO — Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacking plant after finding cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.
Japanese quarantine inspectors found bovine spinal columns in one of 732 boxes sent by Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., which arrived in Japan last month, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. The box contained 35 pounds of chilled short loin with spinal bones, which were not released commercially, said ministry official Goshi Nakata.
The suspension only affects Tyson's factory in Lexington, Neb., one of 46 meatpacking plants approved to export beef to Japan.
It was the second suspension for the Lexington factory, Nakata said. Japan slapped a four-month ban on beef shipments from the same plant in February 2007 after finding two boxes of beef lacking verifications to show they came from cattle that met Japan's safety standards.
The Japanese ministry also asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate how the box containing the banned parts ended up in Japan.
Japan will await results of a U.S. investigation to determine the penalty for the Tyson factory, the ministry said.
Japan banned all U.S. beef imports in 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the United States. Japan resumed buying American beef in 2006 after a bilateral trade agreement setting new safety standards.
Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a degenerative nerve disease in cattle. In humans, eating meat products contaminated with the illness is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady.
Under the bilateral trade agreement, U.S. exporters must remove spinal columns, brain tissue and other parts considered linked to mad cow disease. U.S. beef shipments to Japan must also come only from cattle age 20 months or younger, which are believed to pose less of a risk.
Washington has repeatedly criticized Japan for its tough import restrictions, which authorities say have no scientific basis.
U.S. officials have urged Japan to allow imports of beef from cattle aged up to 30 months, a widely used safety standard elsewhere.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091010/NEWS/910109983?Title=Japan-suspends-US-plant-s-beef-amid-mad-cow-fears-
Korea Trade Deal Lifts Meat Packing Companies Ag and Trade | Main Street Economics 04/19/2008
President Bush has been pushing for a new comprehensive trade agreement with South Korea, but negotiations have hung up on the 2003 beef ban. Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, said he would oppose any new South Korean trade deal until the beef restrictions were lifted.
Now that the beef question has been settled, the larger trade deal will become part of the stark disagreement over trade between Republicans and Democrats.
http://www.dailyyonder.com/korea-trade-deal-lifts-meat-packing-companies
Ambassador Portman said, "Although we appreciate this step toward normalized beef trade with Korea, we are extremely disappointed that Korea did not fully open its market to all U.S. beef products. We will continue to urge Korea in the strongest terms to open its market without delay to U.S. bone-in beef, variety meats, and offal. Together these products historically accounted for approximately 50 percent of U.S. beef exports to Korea."
http://americancorners.or.kr/e-infousa/wwwh3298.html
Subject: US Senator Threatens to Block South Korea Deal Date: April 2, 2007 at 8:33 am PST
US Senator Threatens to Block South Korea Deal
U.S. lawmaker threatened to block a major trade deal with South Korea just hours after it was agreed on Monday. Reuters. A senior U.S. lawmaker threatened to block a major trade deal with South Korea just hours after it was agreed on Monday, saying U.S. negotiators failed to ensure sufficient access for U.S. beef exports. "I will not allow it to move through the Senate, unless and until Korea completely lifts its ban on U.S. beef," Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the influential Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement.
"This is an entirely unacceptable outcome."
A hard line from Baucus and other members of Congress could be trouble for the deal, which officials wrapped up after a marathon negotiating session in Seoul.
Baucus, a Democrat from the cattle state Montana, said South Korea must open its markets to all beef exports, including meat from animals of any age, both bone-in and boneless.
The senator has been a harsh critic of Korean officials' decision to reject three U.S. beef shipments since late last year that contained trace bone chips.
That dispute was not formally part of the negotiating agenda but became a litmus test for U.S. agriculture's support for the pact.
The beef industry is keen to see beef trade resume fully with South Korea, which was the third largest customer for U.S. beef until mad cow disease was discovered in the United States in 2003.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was upbeat about the deal's chances, even in a Democratic-controlled Congress that has been skeptical of the administration's trade agenda.
"We're hopeful, it's always difficult to pass trade legislation in Congress ... But because America benefits from trade opportunities, and we believe that, at the end of the day, people will recognize that," she said.
Negotiators were rushing to finish the deal so it can be voted on under the president's current trade negotiating powers, which expire at the end of June. (Additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky in Washington)
Published: April 02, 2007 17:11h
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=32047
Saturday, August 22, 2009
FREE Kim Min-sun, she is correct about mad cow fears from USDA BEEF
http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2009/08/free-kim-min-sun-she-is-correct-about.html
NOW, LET'S LOOK AT THE FACTS, AND SOME SOUND SCIENCE THERE FROM ;
Docket APHIS-2006-0026 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Animal Identification and Importation of Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0026-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions, Identification of Ruminants and Processing and Importation of Commodities Public Submission APHIS-2006-0026-0012 Public Submission Title Comment from Terry S Singletary
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801e47e1
Docket APHIS-2006-0041 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0041-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived From Bovines Public Submission APHIS-2006-0041-0028 Public Submission Title Comment from Terry S Singletary
Comment 2006-2007 USA AND OIE POISONING GLOBE WITH BSE MRR POLICY
THE USA is in a most unique situation, one of unknown circumstances with human and animal TSE. THE USA has the most documented TSE in different species to date, with substrains growing in those species (BSE/BASE in cattle and CWD in deer and elk, there is evidence here with different strains), and we know that sheep scrapie has over 20 strains of the typical scrapie with atypical scrapie documented and also BSE is very likely to have passed to sheep. all of which have been rendered and fed back to animals for human and animal consumption, a frightening scenario. WE do not know the outcome, and to play with human life around the globe with the very likely TSE tainted products from the USA, in my opinion is like playing Russian roulette, of long duration, with potential long and enduring consequences, of which once done, cannot be undone. These are the facts as I have come to know through daily and extensive research of TSE over 9 years, since 12/14/97. I do not pretend to have all the answers, but i do know to continue to believe in the ukbsenvcjd only theory of transmission to humans of only this one strain from only this one TSE from only this one part of the globe, will only lead to further failures, and needless exposure to humans from all strains of TSE, and possibly many more needless deaths from TSE via a multitude of proven routes and sources via many studies with primates and rodents and other species.
MY personal belief, since you ask, is that not only the Canadian border, but the USA border, and the Mexican border should be sealed up tighter than a drum for exporting there TSE tainted products, until a validated, 100% sensitive test is available, and all animals for human and animal consumption are tested. all we are doing is the exact same thing the UK did with there mad cow poisoning when they exported it all over the globe, all the while knowing what they were doing. this BSE MRR policy is nothing more than a legal tool to do just exactly what the UK did, thanks to the OIE and GW, it's legal now. and they executed Saddam for poisoning ???
go figure. ...
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801f8151
Docket APHIS-2006-0041 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0041-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived From Bovines Public Submission APHIS-2006-0041-0028.1 Public Submission Title Attachment to Singletary comment
January 28, 2007
Greetings APHIS,
I would kindly like to submit the following to ;
BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM BOVINES [Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ContentViewer?objectId=09000064801f8152&disposition=attachment&contentType=msw8
SNIP...END
FULL TEXT ;
Monday, October 26, 2009
MAD COW DISEASE, AND U.S. BEEF TRADE
MAD COW DISEASE, CJD, TSE, SOUND SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL
http://usdameatexport.blogspot.com/2009/10/mad-cow-disease-and-us-beef-trade.html
stupid is, as stupid does. all you gotta do is test to find, test all cattle, AND MAKE THOSE RESULTS, ALL RESULTS PUBLIC, and let those mad cow chips fall where they are. ...TSS
MAD COW DISEASE, CJD, TSE, SOUND SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL
Mad cow ban lifted amid legal threat Story Added : 23rd October 2009
Trade officials say Australia was at risk of international legal action if it did not change its policy on beef imports from countries affected by mad cow disease.
A blanket ban on imports from those countries will be lifted, but all beef will still be subject to close checks.
The Federal Opposition says it will put Australia's beef industry and disease-free status in jeopardy.
But Tim Yeend from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has told a Senate estimates hearing there were legal risks in leaving the policy unchanged.
"It is worth noting that Canada has just recently initiated a dispute against Korea in this precise area," he said.
"So I would say that there's a high level of risk, given that these countries have been raising the issue repeatedly over a number of years in WTO (World Trade Organisation) disputes."
http://www.efarming.com.au/News/agricultural/23/10/2009/75188/mad-cow-ban-lifted-amid-legal-threat.html
Threats stop 'mad cow' ban
David McKenzie
October 26, 2009
AUSTRALIA has scrapped its blanket ban on beef imports from "mad cow'' countries as a result of trade threats, the beef industry has revealed. ...snip...END
http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2009/10/26/126745_national-news.html
Free Trade with Taiwan Is Long Overdue
August 15, 2007
by John J. Tkacik, Jr. and Daniella Markheim Backgrounder #2061
Although Congress has allowed trade promotion authority (TPA) to expire, this paradoxically presents Congress with an opportunity to consider a country-specific initiative that both the majority and minority should find attractive—a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan. Among other things, a U.S.–Taiwan FTA would increase U.S. auto, rice, poultry, and livestock exports and open a significant new market for new research medicines....snip...END
http://www.heritage.org/Research/tradeandeconomicfreedom/bg2061.cfm
Beef Blockade Risks U.S.-Japan Trade War Even as food industry asks for American beef. Compiled by staff Published: May 1, 2006 USA Today reports that a possible trade war looms over the U.S.- Japan beef dispute. Since Japan reimposed a ban on all U.S. beef on Jan. 20 after an improper shipment of veal, frustrations have mounted as officials on both sides work to resume trade.
"It was a stupid mistake, but it's a mistake that's stopped in its tracks a (multi) billion-dollar industry," says J. Thomas Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan. "You don't want beef to set off a trade war between the United States and Japan... This has the potential for being very damaging to the relationship. It's already had a corrosive effect."
Japanese officials took a hard line on U.S. beef imports, demanding an explanation for the last export error and requiring Japanese inspections of American beef facilities. U.S. lawmakers are losing patience, with one senator demanding trade resumption by June 1....SNIP...END
http://californiafarmer.com/story.aspx?s=8165&c=10
Japan Questions U.S. BSE Firewalls, Trade Resumption Still Far Off Food Safety Commission fears Britain-type situation will occur in U.S. beef since meat and bone meal isn't banned from all animal feed.
Compiled by staff Published: Aug 25, 2005 ' animal feed controls to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy are under fire from and independent panel in Japan.
Japan's Food and Safety Commission says a U.S. regulation allowing for the use of meat-and-bone meal from cattle to be used in other animal feeds is risky. The panel members are tasked with determining the safety of U.S. beef before trade can resume between the two countries.
Reuters reports that panel member Tetsuyuki Kitamo says, "We cannot completely rule out the possibility that the situation in the United States may become similar to what happened in Britain."
"Kazuya Yamanouchi, another panel member, proposed that the panel make a risk assessment on U.S. beef that included the possibility that BSE could spread," Reuters reports. "Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, the panel chairman, said he personally did not expect BSE to spread, but added that he would consider the proposal by next meeting."
The next meeting hasn't been set on when the Commission will again look at the issue.
http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx?s=27087&c=17
Japan suspends US plant's beef amid mad cow fears
The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. TOKYO — Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacking plant after finding cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.
Japanese quarantine inspectors found bovine spinal columns in one of 732 boxes sent by Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., which arrived in Japan last month, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. The box contained 35 pounds of chilled short loin with spinal bones, which were not released commercially, said ministry official Goshi Nakata.
The suspension only affects Tyson's factory in Lexington, Neb., one of 46 meatpacking plants approved to export beef to Japan.
It was the second suspension for the Lexington factory, Nakata said. Japan slapped a four-month ban on beef shipments from the same plant in February 2007 after finding two boxes of beef lacking verifications to show they came from cattle that met Japan's safety standards.
The Japanese ministry also asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate how the box containing the banned parts ended up in Japan.
Japan will await results of a U.S. investigation to determine the penalty for the Tyson factory, the ministry said.
Japan banned all U.S. beef imports in 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the United States. Japan resumed buying American beef in 2006 after a bilateral trade agreement setting new safety standards.
Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a degenerative nerve disease in cattle. In humans, eating meat products contaminated with the illness is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady.
Under the bilateral trade agreement, U.S. exporters must remove spinal columns, brain tissue and other parts considered linked to mad cow disease. U.S. beef shipments to Japan must also come only from cattle age 20 months or younger, which are believed to pose less of a risk.
Washington has repeatedly criticized Japan for its tough import restrictions, which authorities say have no scientific basis.
U.S. officials have urged Japan to allow imports of beef from cattle aged up to 30 months, a widely used safety standard elsewhere.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091010/NEWS/910109983?Title=Japan-suspends-US-plant-s-beef-amid-mad-cow-fears-
Korea Trade Deal Lifts Meat Packing Companies Ag and Trade | Main Street Economics 04/19/2008
President Bush has been pushing for a new comprehensive trade agreement with South Korea, but negotiations have hung up on the 2003 beef ban. Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, said he would oppose any new South Korean trade deal until the beef restrictions were lifted.
Now that the beef question has been settled, the larger trade deal will become part of the stark disagreement over trade between Republicans and Democrats.
http://www.dailyyonder.com/korea-trade-deal-lifts-meat-packing-companies
Ambassador Portman said, "Although we appreciate this step toward normalized beef trade with Korea, we are extremely disappointed that Korea did not fully open its market to all U.S. beef products. We will continue to urge Korea in the strongest terms to open its market without delay to U.S. bone-in beef, variety meats, and offal. Together these products historically accounted for approximately 50 percent of U.S. beef exports to Korea."
http://americancorners.or.kr/e-infousa/wwwh3298.html
Subject: US Senator Threatens to Block South Korea Deal Date: April 2, 2007 at 8:33 am PST
US Senator Threatens to Block South Korea Deal
U.S. lawmaker threatened to block a major trade deal with South Korea just hours after it was agreed on Monday. Reuters. A senior U.S. lawmaker threatened to block a major trade deal with South Korea just hours after it was agreed on Monday, saying U.S. negotiators failed to ensure sufficient access for U.S. beef exports. "I will not allow it to move through the Senate, unless and until Korea completely lifts its ban on U.S. beef," Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the influential Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement.
"This is an entirely unacceptable outcome."
A hard line from Baucus and other members of Congress could be trouble for the deal, which officials wrapped up after a marathon negotiating session in Seoul.
Baucus, a Democrat from the cattle state Montana, said South Korea must open its markets to all beef exports, including meat from animals of any age, both bone-in and boneless.
The senator has been a harsh critic of Korean officials' decision to reject three U.S. beef shipments since late last year that contained trace bone chips.
That dispute was not formally part of the negotiating agenda but became a litmus test for U.S. agriculture's support for the pact.
The beef industry is keen to see beef trade resume fully with South Korea, which was the third largest customer for U.S. beef until mad cow disease was discovered in the United States in 2003.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was upbeat about the deal's chances, even in a Democratic-controlled Congress that has been skeptical of the administration's trade agenda.
"We're hopeful, it's always difficult to pass trade legislation in Congress ... But because America benefits from trade opportunities, and we believe that, at the end of the day, people will recognize that," she said.
Negotiators were rushing to finish the deal so it can be voted on under the president's current trade negotiating powers, which expire at the end of June. (Additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky in Washington)
Published: April 02, 2007 17:11h
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=32047
Saturday, August 22, 2009
FREE Kim Min-sun, she is correct about mad cow fears from USDA BEEF
http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2009/08/free-kim-min-sun-she-is-correct-about.html
NOW, LET'S LOOK AT THE FACTS, AND SOME SOUND SCIENCE THERE FROM ;
Docket APHIS-2006-0026 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Animal Identification and Importation of Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0026-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions, Identification of Ruminants and Processing and Importation of Commodities Public Submission APHIS-2006-0026-0012 Public Submission Title Comment from Terry S Singletary
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801e47e1
Docket APHIS-2006-0041 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0041-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived From Bovines Public Submission APHIS-2006-0041-0028 Public Submission Title Comment from Terry S Singletary
Comment 2006-2007 USA AND OIE POISONING GLOBE WITH BSE MRR POLICY
THE USA is in a most unique situation, one of unknown circumstances with human and animal TSE. THE USA has the most documented TSE in different species to date, with substrains growing in those species (BSE/BASE in cattle and CWD in deer and elk, there is evidence here with different strains), and we know that sheep scrapie has over 20 strains of the typical scrapie with atypical scrapie documented and also BSE is very likely to have passed to sheep. all of which have been rendered and fed back to animals for human and animal consumption, a frightening scenario. WE do not know the outcome, and to play with human life around the globe with the very likely TSE tainted products from the USA, in my opinion is like playing Russian roulette, of long duration, with potential long and enduring consequences, of which once done, cannot be undone. These are the facts as I have come to know through daily and extensive research of TSE over 9 years, since 12/14/97. I do not pretend to have all the answers, but i do know to continue to believe in the ukbsenvcjd only theory of transmission to humans of only this one strain from only this one TSE from only this one part of the globe, will only lead to further failures, and needless exposure to humans from all strains of TSE, and possibly many more needless deaths from TSE via a multitude of proven routes and sources via many studies with primates and rodents and other species.
MY personal belief, since you ask, is that not only the Canadian border, but the USA border, and the Mexican border should be sealed up tighter than a drum for exporting there TSE tainted products, until a validated, 100% sensitive test is available, and all animals for human and animal consumption are tested. all we are doing is the exact same thing the UK did with there mad cow poisoning when they exported it all over the globe, all the while knowing what they were doing. this BSE MRR policy is nothing more than a legal tool to do just exactly what the UK did, thanks to the OIE and GW, it's legal now. and they executed Saddam for poisoning ???
go figure. ...
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801f8151
Docket APHIS-2006-0041 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0041-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived From Bovines Public Submission APHIS-2006-0041-0028.1 Public Submission Title Attachment to Singletary comment
January 28, 2007
Greetings APHIS,
I would kindly like to submit the following to ;
BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM BOVINES [Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ContentViewer?objectId=09000064801f8152&disposition=attachment&contentType=msw8
SNIP...END
FULL TEXT ;
Monday, October 26, 2009
MAD COW DISEASE, AND U.S. BEEF TRADE
MAD COW DISEASE, CJD, TSE, SOUND SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL
http://usdameatexport.blogspot.com/2009/10/mad-cow-disease-and-us-beef-trade.html
stupid is, as stupid does. all you gotta do is test to find, test all cattle, AND MAKE THOSE RESULTS, ALL RESULTS PUBLIC, and let those mad cow chips fall where they are. ...TSS