Buy-American lobby seizes BSE issue

[CHIMO]

But some took advantage of the news to promote long-held agendas that stress buying American and blaming Canada for the latest assault on the industry.


"We're looking at some heavy losses," said McDonnell. "And it's not even a cow from the U.S. I mean, you know, (the disease) is not native to the United States."

"The only way we can do that effectively is to stop the product from coming into this country."


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Well Paul C. Where are you now!
Is this a with us or against us issue?

May be time to separate the bovine business and each goes its own ways.

Meet the customer's requirements and supply what they want.

Resources are becoming short and water is one of them. Just think ten years down the road what a good steak will cost as everyone wants the safety of good health.

[demconfive]

1. always blame someone else.

They've made a lot of noise about how that cow came from Canada. The problem isn't where it was born, it was that American cattlemen sent to slaughter a known diseased cow. The meat went into our food supply, not Canada's. It was the American industry that refused to put in place the system necessary to deal with the possibility of BSE coming into the country.

"It's not native to the U.S.!" It's not native to Canada either, idiot!

[PennyLane]

2. Blame Canada!

The Canadians should stop buying anything from the US. The repercussions from this fiasco might hurt more than just the beef industry. Big deal, the bull that sired this cow is from Canada.
The semen was probably shipped here, frozen, long before this cow
was even a twinkle in some farmer's eye. The spin on this story just
gets weirder and weirder. How dumb do they think we are? Don't
answer that! :silly: