| CBC: In a release, the U.S. Department Agriculture said it will now recognize Canada as a minimal- risk region for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the scientific name for mad cow disease. Beginning March 7, Canadian producers will be able to start shipping live cattle under the age of 30 months, as well as beef products from animals over 30 months old. Ruminants such as goats and elk will also be allowed. |
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Update: You just had to know this was going to happen. A new case of BSE may have been found in a Canadian dairy cow. (It has yet to be confirmed). According to USDA spokespeople this morning, it shouldn’t delay the border opening (the expectation is for about a dozen BSE positives a year) . But it couldn’t have come at a worse time.
Is there any word on when we can ship Carolyn Parrish? She’s only 25 months old in Lefty Years, nie?
With the move towards leaner cuts I doubt anyone would want her.
Thank goodness our pummelled beef producers can at last start moving some of the back log of animals that they have wintered for the last 2 years. Let us all resolve to continue buying Canadian beef and to pressure the government to relax the unnecessary regulatory burdens on our abbatoirs that forced our slaughterhouses to close, thereby making us wholly dependent on Americans to do the meatpacking in a “continental” market.
So someone actually listens to the CBC? Anyway, this confirms a rumour I heard a few weeks ago. The source of the “mad cow” has been positively identified – and it is Carolyn Parrish!
They have nice short url’s, and their pages load quickly, so that’s why I tend to use CBC links for “generic” stories.
USDA the world’s gold standard
Though Japan and other nations abroad used the December of 2003 mad cow disease scare in Washington as an opportunity to institute a largely-baseless political boycott of American beef, the United States’ beef supply has always remained incredibly saf…
The thing which really amazed me this Christmas was the price of beef in Canada.
You’d think, in a properly functioning economy where the primary market clammed up, that the price of beef intra-Canada would be rock bottom as eveyone strived to dump the meat, all the way down the distribution network.
But I noticed the supermarket price had barely flinched.
I know the farmers weren’t making any dough, so who was profiteering? Where was the government investigation into price fixing?
I appreciate your worries about small dead animals (or even bigger animals) I have two dogs myslef and would hate to lose any of them it would really hurt inside.
But I have to voice my opinion in th wake of the Tsunami there are thousands of small dead children along with their parents who did not deserve to die like they did.
I know that nature has done this cruel thing and hope people you dont think that I want to put people above the animal world, but we all have an obligation to all life including animals and humans being equal in existance.
Best wishes
Hope your not offended
Chris