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the Stage is SET

Tam

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Taken from an article by Stephen Hedges in Jan 15,2007 Chicago Tribune
The USDA rule is also bound to renew disagreements between government and consumer groups over the USDA's efforts to detect mad cow in the U.S.

Michael Hansen, a scientist with Consumer's Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, said that there are dangerous loopholes in the USDA safeguards to prevent BSE-diseased animal parts from finding their way into animal feed.

Hansen also contends that the Agriculture Department is intent on proving that there is no BSE in the U.S., not on detecting it in U.S. cattle.

"Ultimately they don't want to find anything," Hansen said. "That first animal that they found infected in Washington state, that was completely by accident."

Hansen was one of several consumer representatives involved in an effort to force the USDA to continue BSE tests on brain specimens from a suspect Texas cow in 2005.

Initial tests of the cow in Texas in November 2004 suggested that it had been infected with BSE. The results were sent to a USDA lab in Ames, Iowa, where a more thorough test produced a negative result. But a second, unofficial test by the lab supported the positive Texas results.

While some scientists would have continued testing to determine whether BSE was present, the USDA did not. But Hansen and other consumer advocates raised the issue with the department's inspector general, who ordered that further tests be done in England.

Those tests confirmed that the Texas cow was infected with BSE, which the USDA then announced publicly.

This article sets the stage that proves the US has BSE, the USDA is not looking to find it and the US has dangerous loopholes that spread it.
Now if R-CALF and their court cases proves "ALL beef coming from a Country Affected by BSE presents a "GENUINE RISK OF DEATH" and that Beef and Beef products from those countries cannot be safely traded or consumed, no matter what safeguards are in place." How long will it take Michael and his buddies to turn their R-CALF loaded guns on the US beef industry and DESTROY YOU? Keep donating those calves boys as when Michael and his Consumer groups get done with you they aren't going to be worth a d**n thing :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 

Sandhusker

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You're right, Tam. We should do what the governments of Britian and Japan did - turn a blind eye, deny, and hope it all goes away by itself.
 

Mike

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The USDA set our stage when they got caught fibbing about whether the Washington cow was a downer, when they refused to look at newer testing methods, among other various fiascos related to BSE in the U.S.

But the best tell-tale sign of total incompetency was the S-A-N-T-A G-E-R-T-R-B-I-S statement by the head USDA vet!


:lol:
 

Tam

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Sandhusker said:
You're right, Tam. We should do what the governments of Britian and Japan did - turn a blind eye, deny, and hope it all goes away by itself.

Isn't that what you are doing by telling the US consumer you have the SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD RAISED TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD. And that BSE is a NON ISSUE due to the firewalls you have had in place for so many years the only country to have those firewalls. :wink: Deny Sandhusker that is what you do BEST.
 

Sandhusker

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Tam said:
Sandhusker said:
You're right, Tam. We should do what the governments of Britian and Japan did - turn a blind eye, deny, and hope it all goes away by itself.

Isn't that what you are doing by telling the US consumer you have the SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD RAISED TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD. And that BSE is a NON ISSUE due to the firewalls you have had in place for so many years the only country to have those firewalls. :wink: Deny Sandhusker that is what you do BEST.

Intentionally misinterprit, Tam, that's what you do best.
 

Tam

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Mike said:
The USDA set our stage when they got caught fibbing about whether the Washington cow was a downer, when they refused to look at newer testing methods, among other various fiascos related to BSE in the U.S.

But the best tell-tale sign of total incompetency was the S-A-N-T-A G-E-R-T-R-B-I-S statement by the head USDA vet!


:lol:

Just once Mike I would like to see you look at the whole picture and see that what is happening and going to happen in the US is in the hands of the US beef industry/R-CALF and their court cases. It really doesn't matter if the USDA vet can spell or not in front of the press core. The time to make jokes about someones spelling is long past :roll:
The time for damage control is here. Consumer Union is not distracted from their agenda due to spelling mistakes LIKE YOU SEEM TO BE. They are loading their guns with all the ammo they can find to destroy you and your way of life if it means protecting US consumers from YOU AND YOUR BSE PROBLEMS. And they are watching R-CALF's cases looking for their final bullet. I can see you Laughing Out Loud all the way to the food bank once Michael and his gang get done with you. :mad:
 

Tam

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Sandhusker said:
Tam said:
Sandhusker said:
You're right, Tam. We should do what the governments of Britian and Japan did - turn a blind eye, deny, and hope it all goes away by itself.

Isn't that what you are doing by telling the US consumer you have the SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD RAISED TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD. And that BSE is a NON ISSUE due to the firewalls you have had in place for so many years the only country to have those firewalls. :wink: Deny Sandhusker that is what you do BEST.

Intentionally misinterprit, Tam, that's what you do best.

Tell us how you misinterprit
THE U.S. RAISES THE SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD. :?
 

Econ101

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Tam: Tell us how you misinterprit
THE U.S. RAISES THE SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD.


Tam, we have the safest the USDA allows. They are not always up to my personal standards and are greatly influenced by politicians paid off by the packers and their pals.

You seem to forget this is what we have been saying for a long time.

If you understood this concept, you wouldn't bring up this point.

I think you just have selective hearing.
 

Tam

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Econ101 said:
Tam: Tell us how you misinterprit
THE U.S. RAISES THE SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD.


Tam, we have the safest the USDA allows. They are not always up to my personal standards and are greatly influenced by politicians paid off by the packers and their pals.

You seem to forget this is what we have been saying for a long time.

If you understood this concept, you wouldn't bring up this point.

I think you just have selective hearing.

Geez Econ, IF Leo and the boys meant "The US raises the safest beef that you are allowed to by the USDA to the highest standards that the USDA will allow" Why didn't they just say that. Could it be that if they had Leo couldn't have guaranteed the US consumers would have continued to eat US beef no matter if it was labeled or not after BSE was found in your NATIVE HERD :wink:
 

ranch hand

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Michael Hansen, a scientist with Consumer's Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, said that there are dangerous loopholes in the USDA safeguards to prevent BSE-diseased animal parts from finding their way into animal feed.

Are you in bed with the Consumer's Union, Tam? R-calf wanted to test them all, the other org doesn't want to. :roll: :wink:
 

Econ101

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Tam said:
Econ101 said:
Tam: Tell us how you misinterprit
THE U.S. RAISES THE SAFEST BEEF IN THE WORLD TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS IN THE WORLD.


Tam, we have the safest the USDA allows. They are not always up to my personal standards and are greatly influenced by politicians paid off by the packers and their pals.

You seem to forget this is what we have been saying for a long time.

If you understood this concept, you wouldn't bring up this point.

I think you just have selective hearing.

Geez Econ, IF Leo and the boys meant "The US raises the safest beef that you are allowed to by the USDA to the highest standards that the USDA will allow" Why didn't they just say that. Could it be that if they had Leo couldn't have guaranteed the US consumers would have continued to eat US beef no matter if it was labeled or not after BSE was found in your NATIVE HERD :wink:

"Why didn't they just say that."

Tam, I don't think you would be able to understand anything they said no matter how they said it or qualified it.
 
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