Category: Canada
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Controlled Risk
I missed this with being so busy and the Brucellosis problem in Montana, but the <a href="http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-05-22T193630Z_01_N22412272_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-USA-CANADA-BEEF-COL.XML">US received a "controlled risk" status</a> for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). This is really good news. Under this status age restrictions for beef are no longer valid and any country who…
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Endangered
Canadian MP Mike Lake has called for <a href="http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/824548.htm">Bigfoot, of all critters, to be considered an endangered species</a> under Canadian law. Don't you sometimes wish stupidity was endangered? Mike Lake just proves it isn't.<br />n<br />n<strong>The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein </strong>
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Could You Spare A Coin
Now here is a coin I would like to have. A <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN0328796820070503">220.5 pound gold coin worth one million dollars</a>. Can you imagine that. I have always had a fascination with gold coins. I own a few, but not many, since I don't have the spare cash to really own the numbers I would like.…
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Running Scared
Can you guess who is running scared from <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>? The big Meat packers, <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>, good guess but wrong. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>And industry officials say they're ready to put up a fight.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWow, they are really going to fight this. Who…
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New BSE Case, No Bull
It seems like Canada has a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-02-07-mad-cow-canada_x.htm">new case</a> of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> cropping up. This time it is in a bull of an uncertain age, they think 5 to 7 years, and are starting to try and figure out where it got the infected feed. The report indicates that the animal never entered…
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NAIS Feasibility
A little review to start with. What is the purpose of <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> and how is it going to be accomplished and who is the lead agency in it's implementation?<br />n<br />n<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> is a program by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by…
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Viewpoint
You can approach <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=89dc6f31-2b09-445f-945e-d701f077ecf9&k=56014">this story</a> about contaminated feed in Canada in two different ways.<br />n<br />nEither it shows that Canada still doesn't have the feed situation under control to help prevent <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> or it just shows how hard they are working to fix the problems in their feed system and admitting…
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Case Number Eight
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/health/national/2006/08/23/mad-cow060-823.html" title="Case Number Eight">Canada reports new case of mad cow disease</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Wednesday a new case of mad cow disease in Alberta.<br />n<br />nIt is Canada's fifth case in 2006 and the eighth since 2003, when the disease was first found in this country, officials said.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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USDA Pulls Plan
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/28/news/state/33-import.txt">Cattle groups pleased with halt of import plan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Officials with leading cattle industry groups in the state said they were pleased with the federal government's plan to halt, for now, an effort to expand cattle and beef trade with Canada because of mad cow disease. A leader of one of those groups, however,…
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At it Again
Well R-calf is at it again.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/071306-canada's.htm">Canada’s Latest <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Case in Youngest Animal Yet; <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Must Rescind Final Rule</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Today the Canadian government confirmed its fourth positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (<acronym title="Bovine Spongiform…