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Tam said:Oldtimer said:Tam said:I seem to remember a letter from the OIE that said it was R-CALF that was misreading the OIE guidelines :wink:
If you whole heartly agree with a country shouldn't import cattle coming from a country affected by BSE because it will only spread the disease then why aren't you and R-CALF demanding that the US STOP EXPORTING BEEF AND CATTLE? Aren't you concerned that the US will spread BSE though YOUR cattle and beef exports? You all were sure worried about it when it was Canada exporting :wink:. Where are all the warnings to the US consumers about US beef that R-CALF was putting out about our beef Oldtimer? What makes US beef safe to eat when our beef presented a risk of contracting the fatal human form of BSE? :???:
Tam- I could care less if the US exports or not...We do not need to export beef to have a viable cattle industry if we don't import from every Podunk country that comes along...But I definitely think we should not be importing from countries with much higher ratios of BSE (Japan- Canada) and countries with unknown reasons for second and third generation POST feed ban infection (Canada)....
If Canadian producers are not proud enough or confident enought with its product to want it labeled and identified for Canadian consumers- thats their problem.....
This is a joke I hope Oldtimer :roll: Ranchers in Canada ID all their cattle right back to the ranch it was born, why doesn't the US ranchers? Could it be because you are not confident in your product and do not want to be held accountable for it? Does your organization have the right to demand we ID back to birth ranch when YOU WILL NOT ID YOUR CATTLE? Will at least one of you R-CALFers answer my question PLEASE.DOES R-CALF HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND RESTRICTIONS ON OTHER BSE AFFECTED COUNTRIES WHEN YOU DON"T FOLLOW THOSE SAME RESTRICTIONS??????????
Easy to answer- Yes, YES, YES- If you want to ship into OUR country you should have to follow the rules our country sets-- The same reason I have no problem with Japan requiring testing-- Its their country not ours....
And I don't care what piece of paper some President signed or whatever- they have no right to sign away the rights and sovereignty of our citizens forever... And all it will take to convince the majority is a couple more protests by illegal aliens demanding "their" rights and "their" country back- and telling us we have to give them something because of that rag piece of paper...