Category: BSE

I was reading the latest issue of Business Week and found an <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_10/b3923107_mz018.htm" target="_new">article (luckily available online) on <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a> that was interesting. It talks about the research into how it works and new techniques to fight it. There was one part that really set me off though.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Those many uncertainties…

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…

It looks to me like the question of the next couple of days is what will <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/01/build/state/30-beef-ruling.inc" target="_new">Judge Richard Cebull decide</a>? Will he grant a restraining order or let Canadian beef flow in. The Cow-calf producers of the country are on pins and needles waiting for his decision. The meat packers are just sharpening…

Hope you feel safe now that the Government says <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/26/build/nation/45-canada-cattle.inc" target="_new">Canadian beef is okie dokie</a>. I don't, but I am just a stupid cowboy who doesn't know anything about the cattle industry. I'm so dumb I shouldn't be allowed to speak.<br />n<br />n<b>Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Edmund Burke</b>

It seems like your friends and mine, the big meat packers, want to expose us to even <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/24/build/nation/86-cattle-ban.inc" target="_new">more potentially <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> infected cattle from Canada</a> than the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> does. I keep telling you the meat packers don't…

Just <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/17/build/nation/82-ag-dept.inc" target="_new">another example</a> of your Government "protecting" you from possible danger, they don't. It takes the industry itself fo police the government in this matter through a federal lawsuit. Really a sad stament on the efficacy of your Government.<br />n<br />n<b>The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the…

Bob Mac asked for an explanation of some of the terms in my <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/744-<acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>-Warning.html" target="_new">Bse Warning</a> post. I will try, I am not an expert but I do understand the gist of it. Please forgive me if I don't cover all points. <br />n<br />nThe first part of the press release…

I have said more than once that I think the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym></acronym> is controlled by the big meat packers for their benefit and the detriment of everyone else. I know you think this is the ravings of…

First another <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> case in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/01/11/build/world/20-madcow_v.inc" target="_new">Canada</a>. Then the rumor that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) was going to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7294419" target="_new">cancel the rule</a> allowing Canadian Cattle to come in the US. An interesting day.<br />n<br />n<b>It's interesting-the way in which one has to balance life-because you have…