Have there been any countries willing to take U.S. beef since BSE was found in the U.S.  that said they would not take it if the U.S. was taking Canadian and if so who are they?

 

Gee two reasons and neither one is a strong health issue against imports. One is to protect cattle prices, purely protectionist, never mind what it has done to the rest of the Beef industry.    The other if the US has firewalls to stop another outbreak of BSE from the US NATIVE HERD then why can't those same firewalls stop another outbreak of BSE from imported cattle?

 

And as far as the testing no we don't test  young under thirty month animals, and these are the only ones that are allowed in under the final rule that R-CALF is fighting. Not many other countries test them either including the US. We test the ones that the OIE recommended, over thirty month 4D cattle which most are not even taken off of our farms and ranches let alone allowed into the US .   We also test  far more than we were told to. But  Bullard isn't going to tell you that is he?

Now who are we to believe??? :???:

I Did a google search I didn't find anything about R-CALF and Japan sitting down for a talk, there wasn't even anything on R-CALFs website.  I have to ask has Bullard ever talked to the Japanese Government or is this like his expertise on the Canadian system.  He has never stepped foot in Canada to find out the truth and he has probably never talked to the Japanese, but he BELIEVES so its so.

The deal Creekstone had was with the Japanese private sector, according to   Doud, one of the US men that has been working on resuming trade, the Japanese officials never asked for 100% testing  and according to an email we recieve from the Canadian trade guys,  the Japanese officials also said  no to their private sector businessmen when asked to OK the Creekstone plan.   But that does'nt matter to some I guess.