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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North

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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (5370)12/24/2003 2:43:40 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (3) of 8273
 
It would be a mistake to penalise producers of an entire country with many regions due to a single mad cow found in one corner ..... yes the powers that be in that nation did it to us, but is that a good enough reason to retaliate in kind [in kine?] ..... i wonder if maybe we shouldn't remember that is not US cattlemen who are our enemies, but the regime to which they are subject .... mad cow has been around for years in more places than you think anyway, it should be a crime everywhere to feed animal tissue to cattle, they are herbivores for gawd's sake, the line must be respected

Our new AgMin is going to announce something in about an hour - ca.us.biz.yahoo.com

Article from the cbc - cbc.ca

This one is a holstein, so it's a dairy cull, likely to have been fed a wild and wonderful list of stuff .... raising cattle on range makes good sense, in terms of health and economics both, but this feed-lot industrialisation sure makes a lot of problems ..... i notice several folks around here advertising guaranteed grass-fed beef in halves and quarters, time to fill the freezer, probably
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