U.S. lifts Canada mad cow ban

[are_we_united_yet]

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A federal appeals court has overturned the ban on imports of Canadian cattle, throwing out a lower court's ruling that renewing the imports could spread mad cow disease in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture was not immediately available to comment Thursday on when it would allow imports of Canadian cattle to resume.

The imports were banned in May 2003 after a cow in Alberta, Canada was found to have mad cow disease.

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nothing to lose I guess

:shrug:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/14/us.canada.madcow.ap/index.html

[napi21]

1. Well, since they found 1 or 2 in the US, it hardly makes sense.

I really don't think Canadian beef is any better or worse than those from the US. Hopefully, this will ease the beef prices now.

[Deja Q]

2. Is this because the mad cow scare is over? Or are beef costs rising,

and consumers are really demanding lower prices again?

[are_we_united_yet]

5. Good question.

Don't know.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. So, if we don't ban them for a minor problem with mad cow disease

Then other countries shouldn't ban us either, right? They are so transparent. :eyes:

[kestrel91316]

4. Given our worthless "testing" protocol ..............

I am really not interested in eating beef in the US, regardless of where it came from.

Testing only downers over 30 months of age is akin to testing for HIV only in gay men with overt Kaposi's sarcoma.

You are going to miss something.

[applegrove]

6. Just think of the thousands and thousands of cattle that are owned

by american cattlemen who bought them at rock-bottom prices as they sent their lawyers to court to stop the border from opening in the last few years.

Those are American cattle now.

Really if American Cattlemen were so concerned about your health they would not test 'just a small percentage of cattle' but all of them - as the Japanese do.

[are_we_united_yet]

7. Dang! This is dupe!

sorry Skinner
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1628732

[LisaL]

8. We got mad cows... They got mad cows...

Hardly makes sense to be banning their mad cows...

[DeepModem Mom]

9. I don't think they care about mad cow anywhere. From NY Times article --

"The Agriculture Department has been pushing to resume beef trade with Canada, seeing it as a critical step to resuming trade with other countries, including Japan, which banned American beef after mad cow was found in a Washington dairy cow - which had been fed in Alberta, Canada - in December 2003. Three cows in Canada have tested positive for mad cow since 2003."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/national/15madcow.html?oref=login

They just want to stay in the beef "binness."