Spout that all you want Sandhusker but think back what happen in DEC 2003 in the US that showed the rest of the world just how integrated our two countries are? After the OIE took a look at the investigation and found that the US had no hope of ever finding all the cattle they had imported from Canada and all the US cattle that had eaten feed from a Canadian feed source because of the massive trade that has been going on between our to countries in animals and feed for a hundred plus years, they realize as did Japan that you can't just seperate us. That is why they now think of us as one big market. If the USDA had been able to find all those cows and dispose of them like we did in 1993 then maybe the OIE would not have told them
What a JOKE Sandhusker, R-CALF isn't flip flopping :wink:
That is a little like closing the barn door after the horses are in the neighbors grain field isn't it? If the Firewalls you have can only work if the border is closed what are they doing for the risk that IS IN THE US? Remember the Washington Cow was born in Canada but that is not where she was when she was found with BSE and remember the age of the Texas cow, 12 years old, ours were only 7 and 8 years old that would tell most that you had BSE before Canada. I'm not surprized that you didn't know given the testing the USDA was doing. But that doesn't change the fact that if your firewalls that Leo thinks he can tell the consumers about only protect against importing BSE they aren't being protected like Leo thinks against Native BSE are they? And if they didn't flip flop on the safety of beef coming from a country with a native case of BSE why aren't Leo and Bill out telling consumers the US beef is a genuine risk of death like they are about Canadian beef.
According to some The demand for source- and age-verified cattle is growing at a phenomenal rate both domestically and globally. And you would have had a good start on M"ID" if it wasn't for R-CALF now wouldn't you have? Blame is the game but for goodness sake don't take responibility for your part in why your industry is following every other beef producing nation when it comes to what is really being demanded.