Category: BSE

I run across <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/20040106/cm_usatoday/raisecattlenaturallysafelyonopenrange">this editorial </a>by someone who lives in Montana but attacks the beef industry in favor of her bison industry. Attacking your neighbors industry for your own personal profit is not necessary in this whole <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> debate but this appears to be what she is doing using &acirc;

Well it looks like legally the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=KH5JKXLPEPOUWCRBAEZSFFA?type=domesticNews&storyID=4068376">U.S. can declare that it is "provisionally free" of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. This might be a little soon until we are sure that the cow is from Canada. I think more investigation needs to take place before the administration tries this.<br />n<br />n<i>Standards set by the World…

I received this in the e-mail today. I thought it was quite interesting. I receive in my e-mail all official government pronouncements for the State of Montana so this is real.<br />n<!–more–><br />n<b><i>Proclamation <br />nAMERICAN BEEF WEEK<br />nJanuary 4-10, 2004<br />n<br />nWHEREAS, the U.S. beef industry forms the largest part of the nation's food and…

I read <a href="http://burns.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=1046">this press release </a>from our Senator Burns and could not believe what I was reading. According to our Senator the price will drop on beef because packers are taking advantage of the beef producers not due to a loss in our market share. I think Senator Burns needs to take a class…

As you probable could guess I follow the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> investigation very closely since I am in the cattle industry. Well I am beginning to see <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33163-2003Dec26?language=printer">more and more articles </a>citing the trouble they are having identifying the birth herd of the cow with <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>. Even a presidential candidate…

It appears to me that South Korea has a real problem on its hands. They have <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=2&u=/ap/20031224/ap_on_re_as/mad_cow_asia">banned beef from the U.S.</a> due to <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> and an <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031223/sc_nm/food_korea_disease_dc_1">Avian Flu outbreak </a>has them slaughtering their poultry flocks at a fast and furious rate. It sure sounds like protein is going to get…