Mike said:Millions of cows being chased into a pit to be shot makes good press???
No one said shoot them. Run them through the slaughter system over a period of a year or two and test them all. Get this BSE crap hopefully behind us.
And do what with the meat once they are tested. What do you think would happen to the price of beef and young fat cattle when all that meat hits the markets. Think about that we can't get a good price for the old cows and now you want to flood the market with meat so the price of beef drops and we can't get a decent price for the young fat cattle either. Answer this Would you fix every teenage boy in a High School because a teenage girl got pregnant or would you do what you could to educate and lessen the risk of it happening again. Why would we kill off healthy cattle by the millions just because of a few? Why not lessen the risk with precautionary measure like feed bans and testing and SRM removal and allow these animals to be culled in do time without the damage done that a mass cull would cause. The US producers were worried about the flood of Canadian live cattle would do to your market what do you think a flood of every over 8 year old cow would do?