not going the way they want, there's a tendency to blame someone else. For
instance the so-called yellow cake uranium that was mentioned in Bush's
state of the union address. When that so-called evidence was found to be a
forgery, they first blamed the CIA, then the British intelligence services,
then several individuals, even though the available data suggested that
Powell, Bush and the other upper levels of the administration knew about
the forgery before the speech.
larry
At 10:14 AM 12/30/2003, you wrote:
>lol
>
>I think the major fallout will be public awareness of the issue. People want
>to know something ain't messed up with what they are eating. Blaming Canada
>seems the way things are going. Scary really. Houston....we have a
>problem....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schuster, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 30 December 2003 15:01
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: List of countries ban US beef imports..
>
>
> Why would I care anyway, I eat fish and rice and stuff that grows out of
>the
> ground...and sometimes chicken...oh and sometimes baby lambs that they
>don't
> allow to walk so the meat is so tender...(yeah right, NOT!)
>
>
> Also, look at it this way, our Fast Food Nation can take our overweight
> citizens and simply sit on your citizens and crush them with out fat
>arses.
> We could them make a beef type haggis and beat you silly with them...beef
> would erupt from the beef style haggis because we used sub-par cow stomach
> linings to pack the beef-haggis. The polluted beef would then get into the
> Thames and pollute the entire nation with cancer...
>
>
> Ok, maybe not on second thought.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 30 December 2003 11:48
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: List of countries ban US beef imports..
>
> The UK did what it did to assure external markets. Not the internal
> markets.Same happened everywhere it was found. The export market is a
> key
> business.
>
> It tooks years before the ban was lifted.
>
> It sounds like the US has a long hard slog. In effect, each cow in the
> UK is
> given a 'passport' which goes with it everywhere.
>
> After reading 'fast food nation' you American's are going to have
> serious
> issues with this. I mean very long term issues. You will clinically have
> to
> prove that your beef industry has put in safety checks at each stage in
> the
> process to vet each animal and ensure it's pedigree.
>
> I love the fact your abetoires (sp?) have 'europe' days where you slow
> down
> beef processing as the standards are higher in Europe for beef
> processing
> and the beef would not be accepted.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 26 December 2003 20:34
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: List of countries ban US beef imports..
>
> I'm not completely convinced that the UK's solution was the only or
> the
> best
> solution. It may be, but the problem was surrounding by more
> political
> posturing and knee-jerk reactions than science (as I'm sure it will be
> here
> as well).
>
> At the very least by doing that you've just created mountains and
> mountains
> of biohazard waste which has to be dealt with. The beef industry here
> is
> enormously larger than the UK's - the same solution may not fit the
> same
> problem.
>
> Of course I don't know anything about it really. I'm strictly a
> Sunday
> morning policy maker.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> _____
>
> From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 3:20 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: List of countries ban US beef imports..
>
> The solution is just what the UK had to do. Slaughter all the animals
> in
> an infected herd if even one shows signs of the disease. Then track
> back
> and see where any cows from that herd went and slaughter those herds
> too...etc. etc.
>
> CHeck back previous news coverage of what happened in Europe and how
> they dealt with it to see what the US should be doing.
>
> -Gel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Of course a ban on downed animals (which I generally agree with) would
> do
> very little to deal with this as the generally accepted cause of the
> disease
> has a very unpredictable dormancy phase. Perfectly healthy seeming
> animals
> can be just as infectious as "downed" animals.
>
> I'm not sure what to do to solve this, but I'm concerned that
> reinstating
> the ban on downed animals could be seen as a "fix" for this issue when
> it's
> not.
>
> I wonder if stricter standards on the use of brain/nervous system
> tissue
> would help at all?
>
> Jim Davis
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