U.S. Supports Lifting Ban on Canada Beef [View All]

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TORONTO - U.S. agriculture officials reaffirmed their support for lifting the ban on Canadian beef despite the discovery of a second case of mad cow disease in Canada, expressing confidence that public health measures will protect American livestock and consumers.

Canada's Food Inspection Agency said Sunday that an older dairy cow from the province of Alberta has tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. The results confirmed preliminary tests released earlier this week.


Canada suspects the cow became infected through contaminated animal feed. The cow was born in 1996, before a 1997 ban on certain types of feed, the agency said. It did not enter the human food or animal feed supply and posed no risk to the public, the agency said.


BSE (news - web sites) attacks an animal's nervous system. Food contaminated with BSE can afflict people with usually fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (news - web sites).

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Looks like Bush bribed Canada to stop selling cheaper Canadian drugs to U.S. citizens in exchange for looking the other way on questions about mad cow disease in Canadian beef. Freakin' incredible. Chimpy cares much more about drug company profits than about the health of Americans. Now we won't be able to get affordable prescription drugs and our chances of contracting mad cow disease is drastically increased, just so BushCo can pay off more wealthy Repukes. Disgusting, but you won't hear a word about this in the MSM.