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NCBA, R-CALF, COOL, USDA (No Politics!)
National Farmers Union calls for Border Closure
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<blockquote data-quote="Oldtimer" data-source="post: 167421" data-attributes="member: 97"><p>I pretty much agree with you Msscamp...We do have problems in the US that need to be solved-especially major problems with a USDA that not only doesn't seem to know its job or own rules regarding BSE (shown by previous testing errors and now by shipping boned beef to Japan), but has now been cited by the Inspector General of purposely blocking and interfering with what could be major criminal investigations regarding the Packers and Stockyards Act...</p><p></p><p>Canada gets drawn in because of their much higher prevalence of reported BSE cases which gives them a much higher BSE ratio- and with the question of opening the border to OTM's dangling in the future, which would allow cattle and beef from that higher ratio "cluster" area to enter the country which with our current feedban problems possibly infect US cattle...</p><p></p><p>We need to have the USDA and FDA plug the feedban loopholes to protect the long term safety of the US cattle herd- and we need USDA to institute the M-COOL law so that US consumers know where their beef comes from and the choice can be left to them....</p><p></p><p>This should happen anyway, but this especially takes priority status with the proposed further opening of the border.....</p><p></p><p>Without those two changes I cannot support further opening the US border......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldtimer, post: 167421, member: 97"] I pretty much agree with you Msscamp...We do have problems in the US that need to be solved-especially major problems with a USDA that not only doesn't seem to know its job or own rules regarding BSE (shown by previous testing errors and now by shipping boned beef to Japan), but has now been cited by the Inspector General of purposely blocking and interfering with what could be major criminal investigations regarding the Packers and Stockyards Act... Canada gets drawn in because of their much higher prevalence of reported BSE cases which gives them a much higher BSE ratio- and with the question of opening the border to OTM's dangling in the future, which would allow cattle and beef from that higher ratio "cluster" area to enter the country which with our current feedban problems possibly infect US cattle... We need to have the USDA and FDA plug the feedban loopholes to protect the long term safety of the US cattle herd- and we need USDA to institute the M-COOL law so that US consumers know where their beef comes from and the choice can be left to them.... This should happen anyway, but this especially takes priority status with the proposed further opening of the border..... Without those two changes I cannot support further opening the US border...... [/QUOTE]
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