Preliminary Injunction

I see R-Calf won a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/03/02/build/state/20-madcow-canada.inc" target="_new">preliminary injunction</a> prohibiting the opening of US border to live cattle from Canada. I assumed Judge Cebull would grant the temporary injunction but now there will be a full trial on the issue, that is if the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> doesn't go to the Ninth Circuit Court to overturn it.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cliff Edwards, a Billings attorney, representing R-CALF, said that <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> could ask the Ninth Circuit for emergency relief, but doubted the appeals court would act without a full record of the hearing. "They have the power, but I don't expect them to act," Edwards said, referring to the Ninth Circuit judges.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI think this is the right decision but I will admit upfront that I have a vested interest in keeping the border closed. I have tried to weigh that against the public safety and I think the public safety is the reason I am standing the way I do on this issue. Not everybody sees it that way though.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Alberta rancher Gordon Fenton said he was not surprised by the decision, saying it just reconfirms the protectionist sentiments of the American farm group.<br />n<br />n"It's another lovely day in the agriculture business," Fenton said sarcastically from the family ranch near Irma in west-central Alberta.<br />n<br />nPaskal said he's frustrated with the influence that a small lobby group is having on a multi-billion dollar industry.<br />n<br />n"We've got 12,000 protectionist-minded people that are now the watchdog of the scientific community in regards to animal health," he said. "It's real crap." </blockquote><br />n<br />nSo I am one of the "12,000 protectionist-minded" whackos that are <a href="http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=f19efd80-d2e2-4b3c-95bd-a80aa04998a9&page=1" target="_new">devestating</a> the Canadian cattle industry. To tell you the truth I don't mean to hurt them, but I do have Americas interests to look out for and not Canada's.<br />n<br />nI am not real sure what they can do but it also appears the <a href="http://www.reuters.ca/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:42261c97:323e19f6f23949b6?type=topNews&localeKey=en_CA&storyID=7788289" target="_new">Canadian Government</a> is looking at a legal challenge to the ban. R-Calf has sure managed to ruffle a few feathers with this one. Stay tuned for more news.<br />n<br />n<b>Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson</b>