US Lifting of Ban on Canadian Beef Linked to Canada Imposing Ban on Meds

[norml]

It was announced that the ban on shipments of Canadian cattle to the US would be lifted. A few days later, the Canadian government announced it's intentions to crack down on the reimportation of drugs to the US. Two new cases of mad cow disease have turned up in Canada just this last week. Lifting the ban on importation of Canadian cattle at this time makes no sense, except as part of this swap. There are many republican consumers who want to be able to buy their medications from other countries at a lower price. There are many republican consumers, and republican cattlemen, who don't want some incurable brain dissolving disease to be brought into the US by mad Canadian cows. Why is no one reporting on, or making an issue of this? If you can show that the republican party position on this one is wrong, maybe you can get some of the republican voters to consider how their party might be wrong on other issues. Get to it! Here are some useful links. http://www.rxsanity.org/ http://www.mad-cow.org/ http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/01/12/local/doc41e45761a1d0b178529652.txt

[brainshrub]

1. When we need meds because of the cows,

we won't be able to get them from Canada.

Having said that: I'm having trouble believeing that anything from Canada could be bad for you.




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[Bozita]

2. Big beef and big pharma both win. US consumers lose.

Sounds like another Bush no-brainer.

[norml]

3. Big beef may have a short term gain by getting cheap Canadian cattle

to their packing plants, but when mad cow disease turns up in the US, and some people start having their brains dissolve, it won't be very good for business.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. You will see more US citizens die

from illness caused by Bush environmental and food safety policies in the next 4 years than you've seen in the past 20. Throw in the hundreds of thousands that will die in Iraq, and you have a real killing machine on your hands.

[norml]

5. Some recent articles in The Lincoln Journal that mention Mad Cow.

You searched for: mad cow

Despite another possible case of mad cow, Canadian imports will resume
WASHINGTON - Expressing confidence in the safety of Canadian beef, the Bush administration said Thursday it would stand by its decision to renew Canadian cattle imports beginning in March despite a possible new case of mad cow disease there. The Agri...
6.1K - Jan. 6, 2005; scored 1000.0

New mad-cow case concerns farmers
Ed Bracht's cattle-feeding world, which has grown from nine animals to 12,000 in 45 years, has been rocked on its West Point axis again in early 2005. And January isn't even half over yet. Yet another case of mad-cow disease was confirmed in Canada o...
4.0K - Jan. 11, 2005; scored 749.0

Food and Farm: USDA's mad cow circus, Ring II
After spending the last four years marrying the U.S. cattle market to Canada's cattle market, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is now saddled with its handiwork. The new familys name is the integrated North American beef market.Canadas mad cows are Amer...
4.6K - Jan. 14, 2005; scored 700.0

U.S. supports ban lift on Canada beef
TORONTO 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....
5.1K - Jan. 3, 2005; scored 360.0

Food and Farm: USDA's new minimal risk could cost some their shirts
The only thing worse than the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's timing in the announcement of new rules to permit Canadian live cattle and beef imports into the U.S. are the three reasons it gives to support the rules.The timing was less than perfect. Thre...
4.4K - Jan. 7, 2005; scored 313.0

Cow from diseased Canadian animal's herd traced to U.S.
WASHINGTON Canada announced a case of mad cow disease on Sunday, days after the Bush administration said it would lift a U.S. ban on Canadian cattle. The infected dairy cow was 8 years old and from Alberta. It was born in the same herd, within one ye...
2.6K - Jan. 7, 2005; scored 274.0

Cattlemen sue over beef imports
A cattlemen's group is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, saying the agency's plan to allow live cattle and expanded beef imports from Canada would pose a risk to both consumers and U.S. producers. More Nation/World stories Canadian official...
3.1K - Jan. 10, 2005; scored 245.0

Cattlemen sue over beef imports
A cattlemen's group is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, saying the agency's plan to allow live cattle and expanded beef imports from Canada would pose a risk to both consumers and U.S. producers. Canadian officials just this month confirmed ...
3.0K - Jan. 11, 2005; scored 245.0

Nebraska farm groups react to Johanns' confirmation
The Nebraska Cattlemen organization was enthused Thursday, but the Nebraska Farmers Union was not as a Senate committee questioned Gov. Mike Johanns and then approved his nomination as U.S. agriculture secretary. "I don't think he could have done bet...
1.7K - Jan. 6, 2005; scored 232.0

Johanns sails through confirmation hearing
Gov. Mike Johanns' nomination as secretary of agriculture won swift approval Thursday from the Senate Agriculture Committee after a comparatively gentle three-hour hearing. Unanimous committee endorsement virtually assured Senate confirmation later ...
7.0K - Jan. 6, 2005; scored 200.0





Cattlemen split over open border
A second case of mad cow disease in Canada could easily become a slippery question for Mike Johanns on Thursday when Nebraska's governor seeks Senate confirmation as the next U.S. secretary of agriculture. And Johanns was not willing to say if that c...
4.4K - Jan. 3, 2005; scored 129.0