USDA Fights for Canadian Cattle

USDA stands for United States Department of Agriculture. I repeat United States. Check this out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/061406-usda.htm"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s Inconsistent <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Policies Continue to Cost U.S. Cattle Industry Billions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Following the December 2003 discovery in Washington state of an imported Canadian cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (<acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>), more than 50 countries closed their markets to U.S. beef. Now, almost three years later, these markets still remain largely closed, and Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>) still refuse to correct the problems that contributed to the loss of these significant export markets.<br />n<br />n“Making headlines this week is <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s reported actions of further delaying exports to South Korea at a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars a day because <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> wants to try to force that country to accept beef from Canadian cattle,” said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. “That's wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is that it puts the interests of a few meatpackers that want to slaughter Canadian cattle over the entire remainder of the U.S. cattle and beef industry.<br />n<br />n“South Korea has made it clear it will not accept beef from Canadian cattle,” Bullard continued. “<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s decision not to move forward with the agreement shows that the packers have too much influence over <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>, and these obstructionist practices are hurting U.S. cattle producers.” </blockquote><br />n<br />nSouth Korea doesn't want beef from Canadian cattle. The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> says to hell with the US producers, they want to protect the Canadian producers and the meat packers. This is just totally unbelievable. DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND THE US IN <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> MEANS UNITED STATES.<br />n<br />nI am so at a loss as to why Johanns is doing this. The only reason I can see is that he is in the pay of the meat packers. It's the only thing that makes sense. Why else would he undercut American producers this way. I've always said the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is just a arm of the big meat packers and this just proves it yet again. When is Congress or somebody going to step in and investigate the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> and how it undercuts American beef producers time and time again in favor of the meat packers. <br />n<br />nWhat really gets me is nobody cares. Screw the American cattlemen, we don't care seems to be the philosophy. I have tried time and time again to get answers to questions about things like this from Burns, Baucus, Rheberg, and Tester and they all just ignore me. They won't respond to any of my questions about Agricultural policy. They obviously don't care about the agricultural segment of the state and feel they can ignore us. <br />n<br />nI'm serious here, what's a dumb cowboy supposed to do to get these people's attention? I'm open to suggestions. I write, call, e-mail and they are all ignored time and time again. What do I do wrong when asking the questions? The only thing I can figure is they require too much thought and caring about the public and they can't give a glib answer in response. That must be it, I always ask for specifics, not generalities when they answer my question.<br />n<br />nI'm tired of this shit, that's all I know.<br />n<br />n<strong>I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness. Zane Grey</strong>