Oldtimer said:
Tam Did you forget the Canuck government backed down on all those safeguard rules they proposed a couple years ago--Same as the US....And they aren't in effect- sold out long term safety to short term packer economics again......
I think BSE tester will end up being right on this one in both countries--Both countries will end up testing- maybe everything...10-15 years from now when people start dying from BSE (vCJD) or another TSE in North America the public will demand it- just like the Japanese.....BUT I wonder How many will die because of the bullheadedness of the Tams & ~SH~'s of the world that blindly follow the Packers and NCBA/CCA/CFIA/USDA and their economy driven science...
Creekstone could have tested thousands at no cost to the producer and given the world a better sampling of the extent of this disease.....
Oldtimer until the US is caught up with Canada Please don't comment on what we haven't done
YET.You have a long way to go or did you forget you personally said the US has a right to have the same safeguards as Canada has had for years.
Why can't you get it through your head that even Creekstone said that BSE tested beef doesn't mean BSE FREE. so tell us how the testing they were going to do was going to give the world a better sampling of the extent of the disease when they were going to test animals that would not show positive with the test Japan was using.
BSE testers test may be the saving factor but until the government validates it it is doing us no good. Besides if what BSE tester says is true about his test and that it can detect prions in urine in cattle of all ages then why is he saying we should test every animal headed into the human food chain why not test the whole herd and eliminate it? Does the animal have to be dead to get a sample of its urine? If Japan believes in the test why haven't they tested their whole herd, eliminated anything testing positive and gone back to BSE free status. That would sure ease the minds of their consumers to know the government had eradicated the disease altogether.