Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Canada

  • Another Case

    <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a7KiAfFIHgjM&refer=canada">Canada Says Alberta Dairy Cow Is 12th Mad-Cow Case </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Canada confirmed its 12th case of mad-cow disease in an animal born about five years after the nation banned some feed ingredients to halt the spread of the brain-wasting illness.<br />n<br />nThe sick animal was a six-year-old dairy cow from Alberta, the Canadian…

  • New Case

    <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/18/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Mad-Cow.php">Canadian food inspection agency confirms mad cow disease in 13-year-old animal</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>OTTAWA: Canada confirmed a new case of mad cow disease on Tuesday, the country's 11th case since the disease was first discovered in 2003.<br />n<br />nThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the cow's carcass entered the human food or…

  • Rules

    I didn't comment on the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>'s OTM rule yesterday allowing older Canadian Cattle to be imported into the US. It's one of those situations that I have mixed feelings about.<br />n<br />nThe people opposed to the OTM rule say that they…

  • Priorities

    <a href="http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2007/10/30/local_news_updates/19local_10-30-07.txt">Tainted meat traced to Canada</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A now-closed Canadian beef company was the source of contaminated meat that sickened 45 people in eight states, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say.<br />n<br />nOne of those states was Wyoming. A recall pulled the meat from shelves in Cheyenne in late September and early October.<br />n<br />nA…

  • Sue Them

    I guess the answer to everything is to sue somebody. Now Canadian cattlemen are <a href="http://provisioneronline.com/viewnews2.php?nid=1797">suing the US government</a> over our closing of the border between us to Canadian beef due to <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> concerns. I know Canadian cattleman really suffered during the border shutdown but is it really necessary to sue? What…

  • USCA Press Release

    UNITED STATES CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION<br />n<br />nP.O. Box 339 – San Lucas, CA 93954<br />n<br />nEmail: usca@uscattlemen.org<br />n<br />nWeb Site: www.uscattlemen.org<br />n<br />nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />n<br />nOctober 3, 2007<br />n<br />nU.S. Cattlemen on Senate Resolution of Disapproval<br />n<br />n<acronym title="United States Cattleman's Association">USCA</acronym> (Oct. 3, 2007) – Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) today introduced in the United…

  • Opposition

    I've talked before about <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2482-Running-Scared.html">Canadian producers opposing <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym></a>, but now there is new opposition out there to <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym> in the US that really surprised me.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> The New Zealand Government has been lobbying the United States Department of Agriculture not to introduce food origin labelling…

  • Border Ruling

    I know I am a little behind on this one but life sometimes gets in the way of things. The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/09/0247.xml">has approved</a> the import of Canadian cattle over 30 months of age into the US. This is, to say…

  • China’s Cattle

    I found <a href="http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=35109&TM=77478.55">this article</a> about the possible competition from China for the beef industry interesting. Am I overly worried about China importing meat to the US? No. Where I see the problem coming is the competition in some of the foreign markets like Japan and South Korea that China could give us. That seems…

  • Curiosity

    I would really be curious to know the whole story <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/08/17/beef-closure.html">here</a>. We cattlemen were being told a couple of years ago that packing plants in Canada would hurt US packing plants and start a trend which would require us to ship fats to Canada to be butchered there. I personally thought it was a…