Cattle Rack Rancher
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I had the opportunity to go to my wife's family reunion this weekend. I looked forward to it about as much as getting a root canal. I'm not a big guy for crowds, anyway, but sitting around with 100 people I don't know for two days was a bit much. Anyway, my Brother-in-law who teaches English in Japan was back for this reunion so I tried to get an idea of what the Japanese position was on BSE. According to him, the American government representative meets with the Japanese government representative about once a week and demands that the Japanese border open to American beef and the Japanese response is
'You guessed it' Not until the American government opens the border to Canadian beef. Also, the American and Canadian borders are still closed to all Japanese beef products even though they test 100% of their beef. Interesting, eh?
On a slightly different topic, and don't shoot the messenger boys, he was telling me that the body count of Americans killed is about twice that of what they report. He told me that immigrants join the American army as a way of getting their green card, but if they are killed, they are not counted as American casualties. Is this true?
'You guessed it' Not until the American government opens the border to Canadian beef. Also, the American and Canadian borders are still closed to all Japanese beef products even though they test 100% of their beef. Interesting, eh?
On a slightly different topic, and don't shoot the messenger boys, he was telling me that the body count of Americans killed is about twice that of what they report. He told me that immigrants join the American army as a way of getting their green card, but if they are killed, they are not counted as American casualties. Is this true?