Finger Pointing

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/12/build/business/30-canada-beef.inc">This article</a> really made me laugh. While I agree with the assessment that U.S. finger pointing at Canada is a little juvenile, the Canadian cattle producers ought to be a little more careful about the claims they make.<br />n<!–more–><br />n<i>Before <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> was found in the Alberta Black Angus in May, cattle and feed moved freely between the United States and Canada. Afterward, the United States banned most Canadian beef.</i><br />n<br />nBefore the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> outbreak in Canada occurred, Canadian cattle did move across the border freely in to the United States and was a big concern among many American cattle producers. It was, and still is, though very difficult to move American cattle into Canada. It has always appeared to U.S. producers that Canada has in place requirements, which were very hard to meet, to get cattle into Canada. In fact <a href="http://www.beefusa.org/dsp/dsp_content.cfm?locationId=1604&contentTypeId=1&contentId=24668">talks are underway</a> to attempt to correct this issue. I understand that the finger pointing upsets many Canadians but so does some of there restrictions they place on American cattle. What goes around, comes around.<br />n<br />n<br />n<b>When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer</b>