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12/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Blame Canada."
Blame Canada.
Y'know, if I were a conspiracy theorist, I would point out that the beef industry in this country would accomplish two things with this announcement - they'd re-open beef exports (the lack of which are costing them beaucoup dollars right now), and they'd also put the hurt on the Canadian beef industry - which would open the market to more sales of US beef.
But everybody knows that a multi-billion dollar industry would have too much integrity to blame the mad cow scare on another country to preserve the bottom line, right? Right?
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At the risk of sounding like "Plainer Dreck" (aka Nedra Pickler) when reporting against sanctions against US beef they fail to mention US beef was banned from many European countries because we used growth hormone.
While in Nedra mode... while the beef industry laments mad cow disease they fail to mention that the cattle industry brought it upon themselves by feeding their cattle the remains of infected cattle.
Posted by Old Fashioned Patriot @ 12/28/2003 03:59 AM NY
Nothing is ever America's fault, not terrorists getting in for 9/11, power failures, acid rain or mad cows. It's always someone else's fault because America is the land of personal responsibility.
Posted by salvage @ 12/28/2003 10:07 AM NY
salvage - that's bloody perfect.
Posted by editor @ 12/28/2003 11:27 AM NY
Of couse, there was no problem with banning imports of Canadian beef, but when the shoe is on the other foot...or the cow is on the other hoof?
Cows are vegetarian, not cannibals. Trying to get off cheaply by feeding meat instead of the natural diet is the cause. What idiots!
Posted by Allison @ 12/28/2003 04:37 PM NY
Investigators have tentatively traced the first U.S. cow with mad cow disease to Canada.
tentatively
adj.
1. Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional: tentative plans.
2. Uncertain; hesitant.
Investigators are uncertain if the first U.S. cow with mad cow disease came from Canada.
Posted by da lurker @ 12/28/2003 07:29 PM NY
Dependes on where you read. From CNN.com:
Ron DeHaven, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief of veterinary medicine, said Canadian records show the cow -- a Holstein -- entered the United States via Eastport, Idaho, with a herd of 73 other cows in August 2001.
He said investigators have matched an ear tag applied to the cow at the point of export and removed from the sick cow at the slaughterhouse to records of a Canadian cow.
DeHaven said investigators hope to use DNA tests to confirm their preliminary determination that the cow entered the country from the Canadian province of Alberta.
Sounds like they are pretty damn sure of it, no? The other thing that should be taken into account is the effect of the reports of "tentative" links being made public. What is the source trying to say? Just trying to get the information out? Somehow, I do not get that feeling. Seems more like they are trying to reassure us that real American cows are not sick, only those wussy Canadian ones. All the while, they also say that you really don't have to worry, cause the muscle cuts of meat can't transmit the disease. Hmm. Odd that when BSE was in those British cows they were linking fertilizer made from it to vCJD in gardners, via inhalation.
Someone out there needs to get their facts straight. Glad I am a vegetarian.
-K
Posted by K @ 12/28/2003 09:05 PM NY
