Blame it on Canada!

Didnt the original canadian case spawn from cows delivered from the states in the first place?

How bout we just blame the real cause for most of the world's turmoil, the US.

PS. Blame Canada all you like, it'll be the US to feel the blow of banned beef now.



Chris

should change the name to 'terrorist cow disease'.

Hah! It's always the americans fault. It was america's fault the power grid went down, and now it's your problem you have mad cow. I hope canada shuts the border.

What goes around comes around.

ter�ror�ist
n.

One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.

Any persons, place, or thing that sneaks past Canadian officals and causes destruction within US territory.

adj.
Of or relating to terrorism.





Chris

Fixed.

Anyway, this was kind of funny: "Veneman went out of her way to point out that the discovery of BSE was 'not terrorist related.' "

I don't think the terrorists who want to bring about the downfall of Western civilization would waste their time infecting cows with BSE. There are a lot more effective means of killing people.

Oh come on, texas has had unreported cases of mad cow.

Don't think for one second a farmer is not going to shoot and burn the damn cow instead of having the gov kill all his cows.

I know, I've heard as much from farmers.

Fine, do that and keep it that way. Would hurt you more than us.

damned socialist, disease-ridden scum.

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Hah! It's always the americans fault. It was america's fault the power grid went down, and now it's your problem you have mad cow. I hope canada shuts the border. What goes around comes around.

Oui oui!

Geo. II will have a hard time trying to Texas Strongarm countries from banning U.S. beef when this country was so quick to ban British beef awhile back. There's gonna be a lot of unhappy rednecks this Christmas.

I hope Canada shows the US how to behave properly when it's neighbour and biggest trading partner is facing an economic crisis.

Like anything'll happen to america... they'll just bomb anyone who doesn't buy their beef.

My first impulse was, "Screw the Americans. They don't care about Canada. Shut the border down."

Then, I remembered that Paul Martin wants to better Canada-US relations. This is a perfect opportunity if he can get his point across to Bush, which I have doubts about. I can't speak from much experience, but it does seem to me that Republican administrations take on a "what have you done for me lately?" approach to foreign policy, while Democratic administrations tend to see the bigger picture.

Edit: I should add that I hope this leads to a complete lifting of the US ban on Canadian beef. The ban was still in place this fall because the US feared losing the Japanese market. Japan has now shut its border to US beef, so there's no reason for the US to continue banning Canadian beef. In fact, I think the free flow of beef between the US and Canada would greatly aid the farmers and ranchers who are and will be suffering. Eventually, countries will lift their bans, but until then, misery loves company, or something like that.

We'll never really know the full extent of BSE, maybe not until we see people dropping dead in around ~15 years, due to the human equivalent. Lots of these animals were infected years ago, farmers probably burned suspecting cattle, but not before they made a nice contribution to society by supplying infected meat.

It's pretty horrendous seeing how many farmers knowingly fed these animals such cr@p to cause this.

The only solution is to stop feeding vegetarians (cows) the dead remains of their own species.



That is the funniest thing I've read all week! Man, talk about a one friggin' track mindset. gg, US!

I've got a great idea! Why don't we stop feeding cows the brains of other dead cows?!?

Nah... it'll never work...

CV

I want Canada not to ban American beef because of the Republican "what have you done for me lately?" policy or to improve Canada-US relations, but because it's the right thing to do.

So do I, but I tend to tread a little nearer to the realist approach to international relations when a conservative government is the foreign side in question.

actually, i think that with a change at the top in the cdn gov't, not playing the "tit for tat" game will probably help a lot in getting the border open again for *full* beef exports (like it used to be).

Cattle in America have had a BSE related disease for somet ime referred to as 'downer cow' since the weaker cattle (when being moved from one grazing area to another) fall down and die. As a result the infected cattle do not make it into the food chain.

If indeed the bovine animal in Washington state has (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) BSE, it might not mean that new variant CJD will rear it's head as it did in the UK. It's best to wait and see what the results of the tests show.

here we go...it's starting!

A veterinarian in the Yakima Valley familiar with the investigation but who asked not to be identified said he had learned that the "cow didn't spend her whole life in the state of Washington." In recent years, a large number of cattle have been imported into the Yakima Valley, primarily from Canada, following a rapid expansion of local dairy herds, according to another veterinarian, Ernie Munck. "I have several clients that have brought in cows from Canada," said Munck, a large-animal veterinarian from Prosser, Wash. "One client brought in a few truckloads from Ontario."


DeHaven declined to speculate on whether the Holstein came from Canada, where a case of mad cow disease was unearthed in May. Following that discovery in Alberta, the United States stopped beef imports from Canada. The infected Washington state Holstein probably ate contaminated feed in 1999 or 2000, before the ban on Canadian cattle and products was in place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...anguage=printer

*sigh* figures.


Chris

Freedom Cow�

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3797510/

Does it take 2 years to show symptoms?

CNN is saying the same thing. lol!



BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA!
With their beady little eyes...

Let's invade Canada! They have Mad Cows of Destruction!

listen, the blame is to rest on the cattle industry in general.
how are you going to feel VEGETARIAN BY NATURE animals, biproducts of OTHER ANIMALS and not expect them to have an adverse reaction? maybe nature is telling us something...
it's just plain stupid north american fatty foods economics that's creating this disease, and it will continue until we either stop the practise, or mess with animals more...but then again the second will probably lead to another more dangerous unforeseen disease.
so yeah, blame canada?
i blame you.

How convenient for the US to "misplace" the ear tag so that Canadians can't verify it