Hat: "Tam the consumers don't give a damn why R-Calf keeps the border closed all we have to do is tell them we are protecting them from the possibility of importing BSE from a known BSE country."
Which is a bold faced lie.
USDA is protecting consumers, not R-CULT.
R-CULT thinks they are protecting a higher cattle market but what they fail to understand is that our cattle markets would be higher with normalized trade. In the process of stabbing Canada in the back, they are hurting higher cattle prices by prolonging the loss of our export market to Japan.
But that isn't the worst part of R-CULT's ignorance.........
Nothing could be more narrow minded and potentially devastating to this industry than R-CULT and their clones telling the American consumer, in the Washington Post no less, that the feed ban, increased surveilance in the highest risk categories, importation of UTM cattle only, SRM removal, and removal of positive animals from the food chain IS NOT ENOUGH TO ASSURE CONSUMER SAFETY!!!
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU PLAN TO TELL CONSUMERS IF WE HAVE A DOMESTIC BSE CASE HAT ????
HMMMMM????
Are you really so ignorant as to never have considered that?????
Nothing R-CULT has ever done reaches this level of total insanity and you headnodders sit there and blindly support this insanity thinking that not importing Canadian cattle (5% of our domestic U.S. beef consumption under normal trade) is the sole reason for higher cattle prices.
By lying about the safety of Canadian beef, you are risking the integrity of 80% of our normal U.S. beef consumption (domestic production) to stop 5% of our nomal U.S. beef consumption (Canadian live cattle imports that are now coming down in boxes.
That is precisely why I wouldn't piss on R-CULT if they were on fire!
~SH~