I guess I can understand why you don't get it. You have no chips on the table in this game and therefore it would be quite a challenge for you to grasp the risks and threats involved. It would probably take a little more personal involvement, proximity and investment on your part to know what it feels like to be subjected to the incredible financial, emotional and psychological stresses that the Canadian cattleman and woman have endured as the result of someone else's fumbling ineptness and hypocrisy.

Therefore, it should be no surprise that the bungling of the American regulatory system is regarded with the same level of suspicion and contempt that many of us in Canada hold for the childish posturing of the radical, imbalanced group that purposefully managed to help keep the CDN. cattle industry in a vise controlled by a handful of processors that were possessed by a rapist mentality.

And yes, BSE is a relatively minor threat to consumers in North America. Indeed, it is quite likely that more real harm has been done to the people who produce beef in this country than BSE will ever do to the consumers. But how much press does that get?

But we are to sit back and let some "civil" servants criticize or vilify us at their whim . . .

Don't get me started . . .