Under 24 Month Positives in the UK

[DiamondSCattleCo]

SH, you've never seen any proof that Japanese consumers are asking for BSE tested beef?????

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You never saw one of the articles posted here then? Do you think those were made up? Someone doesn't have anything better to do with their time than make up a news article? How about the college study that was posted? That made up to?

:roll: :roll:

As for your comments on imports, again you display your true knowledge level. Hmmm, I ate a US hamgurber yesterday. Guess that makes me a MASSIVE import market. Yippee!

:roll:

Y'know, you yap about speculation, yet thats all you have. Pure 100% speculation, and you draw conclusions based on faulty logic. You haven't even read all the news articles that back up what we're saying about BSE testing, yet you profess to be an expert and obviously your logic is the only correct logic?

:roll:

I'm out SH. You're a waste of time.

Rod

 

[Econ101]

SH, ranchers. net needs to make a kiddie section inspired by you. The only problem is that real kids might go there instead of just you.

 

[Mike]

Bush Administration Presses Japan to Readmit U.S. Beef

WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2004 (ENS) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is anxious to begin exporting beef Japan once again, and is pressuring the Japanese government to lift the ban on U.S. beef imports that was imposed last December. The ban was imposed by Japan and some 40 other countries when one Washington state cow was found to have the fatal brain wasting disease known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

The Bush administration has asked the Japanese government to participate in a technical consultation about its beef quality standards, but if that does not persuade the Japanese to let U.S. beef in again, the U.S. officials are threatening a World Trade Organization review.

In a letter to Japanese Agriculture Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei on March 29, the Bush administration proposed a U.S./Japan technical consultation on BSE with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the international standard setting body for animal diseases.

The Japanese require all cattle to be tested for the disease before they can become food for humans, and the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture has required that the United States institute universal testing before the ban can be lifted.

Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman with Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei at an introductory meeting held July 10, 2003. (Photo courtesy )
Japan also insists on the removal of specific risk materials such as brain and spinal cord tissue as conditions for the re-entry of U.S. beef products into the Japanese market, but the United States is not willing to test all the carcasses exported to Japan and says U.S. meatpacking practices now remove the specified risk materials.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick cited findings by an international scientific panel which said that there is no need for 100 percent testing. The United States wants the OIE consultation "to establish science-based standards that will allow resumption of trade in beef and beef products," they said.
"The most appropriate path at this point is for the scientific experts at the OIE to consult and agree upon measures that are based on science," Veneman and Zoellick said. "We urge the government of Japan to agree to an OIE consultation and to assure that its measures are consistent with its international commitments as a member of the World Trade Organization."
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Scooter, You are missing the whole point of the argument. No, Japan is not asking for universal testing now that the USDA has caved on the age of animals allowed to be shipped to Japan.

Because of these age requirements, we are shipping miniscule amounts of beef to them.

Plus we could have gotten our foot in the door and not allowed the Aussies and those big corps there the full run.

Testing was only a "REASSURANCE" measure we could have afforded them.

I want my $175+ per head back!!!!!

 

[bse-tester]

SH scribbled:

Translation:

I have a bse test for sale and I know more than the USDA, the agency that is held publicly accountable for food safety, about the validity of bse tests but for some strange reason, USDA won't approve my test. Waaaaaaaahhhhhh!

Why won't USDA approve your test bse-tester? Hmmmmm???

Do you honestly want readers to believe that you care more about food safety than the agency taxed with that responsibility as you stand there with $$$$$$$$ in your eyes and a bse test kit in your hand? That's pretty damn arrogant.

Your bias screams!

What's your name bse-tester and what is your company's name? I'd like to do a little checking myself on why your "WHIZ BANG" bse test wasn't approved by USDA. Where there is smoke, sometimes there is just smoke.

Your ignorance is running way ahead of your typing butt-head. Or is Beavis dictating it for you?

First of all wise-guy, the USDA doesn't have the authority to "approve" any test!! That is the responsibility of a European-based World Sanctioned Agency. How stupid can you get pal????

Secondly, simply trying to engage you in responsible discussion is failing miserably due to your insanely high level of ignorance surrounding BSE.

Lastly, the only smoke here is what you excrete from your shorts hot-shot. You have finally shown just how uninformed you really are. It is truly amazing how someone like you can actually make your continued feable attempts to intimidate others on this board by hurling your totally and truly uninformed rhetoric at everyone.

As for my name and my company, it has been well known on here for some time. All you have to do is search for it. While you are at it, try also to find out which agency provides the final stamp of approval for any BSE test to be used in the public domain?? It sure as hell is not the USDA and in fact, some here might also agree that the USDA has been using a test that is flawed and also not sensitive enough and that may account for the level of failures they have been experiencing over the past few years.

And you place all of your trust in that agency - man you are way out there pal!! Not only stupid and ignorant but supportive of an agency that has one of the most abyssmal records for public safety in the western world!!

Lastly, we introduced our test to the CFIA & USDA back in 2003 and they both told us they did not need it. In fact, they also advised us that they couldn't use it until it was validated and approved by the same European-based World Authority.