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Speeking With Voice - Part 2
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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 23546" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>So what would be American beef. If it was born in the States, finished in Canada and shipped back to the US is it American beef? If it is born in Mexico, finished and slaughtered in the US is it American beef? If it is born and finished in the US but slaughtered elsewhere is it still US beef?</p><p>The big problem we have in Canada is that we always thought we had an integrated North American Market. Before free trade came through, we had five large packing plants in our province (60% of our beef goes to exports) most of it to the US. It makes up about 5% of the US market. After free trade all those jobs in the packing plants went south because as I said, we thought it was an integrated market. This BSE thing has shown us different. Now we are producing far more than we can slaughter and instead of free trade with the US we may end up competing with the US in the foreign markets. Canada and the US are the only countries in the world that produce any substantial amount of grain fed beef. That is why I think that if we have this market cornered we should be attacking this as a united front rather than a divided one. All this COOL and border closures to me looks like protectionism. In a land that prides itself on being a leader in free enterprise, this surprises me. I could give you a big, long winded lesson on why protectionism doesn't work in a global economy but as I say it would be long winded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 23546, member: 245"] So what would be American beef. If it was born in the States, finished in Canada and shipped back to the US is it American beef? If it is born in Mexico, finished and slaughtered in the US is it American beef? If it is born and finished in the US but slaughtered elsewhere is it still US beef? The big problem we have in Canada is that we always thought we had an integrated North American Market. Before free trade came through, we had five large packing plants in our province (60% of our beef goes to exports) most of it to the US. It makes up about 5% of the US market. After free trade all those jobs in the packing plants went south because as I said, we thought it was an integrated market. This BSE thing has shown us different. Now we are producing far more than we can slaughter and instead of free trade with the US we may end up competing with the US in the foreign markets. Canada and the US are the only countries in the world that produce any substantial amount of grain fed beef. That is why I think that if we have this market cornered we should be attacking this as a united front rather than a divided one. All this COOL and border closures to me looks like protectionism. In a land that prides itself on being a leader in free enterprise, this surprises me. I could give you a big, long winded lesson on why protectionism doesn't work in a global economy but as I say it would be long winded. [/QUOTE]
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