RobertMac said:
Tam, if the table had been turned, can you honestly say that you Canadians would not have tired to protect your herd and markets?
Well Robertmac if the tables were turn I would have to say the Canadian beef industry would have
taken it as a warning that if the US had BSE then it was only a matter of time before it was found here. And I believe we would have taken that time to improve our system to handle the problem unlike what you did which was deny, point fingers, lie and blame. We had already implimented our National ID system in light of the world BSE problem but did you NO . You are still fighting about a system that just may have helped in finding the Alabama cows birthplace and contaminated feed source.
But I doubt you would have seen a BEEF ORGANIZATION in Canada telling consumers that US beef represents a huge health risk and risking destroying consumer confidence of all our beef just to keep your small imports out of our markets when the inevitable happened and we found BSE here. :roll:
BUT Please remember that if the tables were turned the Canadian Beef industry would, under OIE rules,
had the right to DEMAND REQUIREMENTS of the US Beef industry. As under the OIE rules we would have the right to demand you have the same safeguards in place as we practice on our domestic herd. which means Robertmac NO CHICKEN CRAP among other thing could be fed to your herd, or maybe a system where your feed system is actually inspected to assure the claimed compliance record dealing with the Feed bans in CORRECT . Then maybe a higher percentage of the HIGHEST RISK cattle would have to be tested not slaughter house animals, and a requirement dealing with what test is used to confirm BSE positives so it doesn't take 7 months and a forced retest using the right test to find you do have BSE. These are just a few of the demand that Canada
could have put on you.