USDA: Quarantined Canadian Cattle Never in U.S.

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(not to thrilled by that last paragraph, S.)

 

USDA: Quarantined Canadian Cattle Never in U.S.

Thu May 22, 2003 11:55 AM ET

By Randy Fabi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canadian cattle quarantined as part of a mad cow

disease investigation did not pass through or come from the United States, a

U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Thursday.

 

Bill Hawks, a USDA undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs,

told a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing that Canadian officials

indicated none of the quarantined cattle ever entered the U.S. market. " All

evidence is pointing to that they are Canadian cattle, " he said.

 

Earlier this week, Canada announced it found one cow in Alberta was infected

with the deadly mad cow disease, the nation's first case of bovine

spongiform encephalopathy in a decade. The disease, which destroys a cow's

brain tissue, has been linked to more than 125 human deaths, mostly in

Britain, as a result of eating tainted beef.

 

All other cows in the Alberta herd were quarantined and scheduled to be

slaughtered and tested for the disease. Two other Canadian cattle herds were

also quarantined for the investigation. Last year, Alberta shipped more than

500,000 live cattle to the United States, which has never had a case of mad

cow disease.

 

At the Senate panel hearing, U.S. lawmakers expressed concern that it took

Canadian officials four months from the slaughter of the diseased animal

until they announced the mad cow diagnosis. Hawks said it would only take an

average eight days in the United States for similar test results to be

obtained.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Yes, it is likely this press release is just a cover-up and

spin to keep stocks from falling too quickly in the beef

industry and fast food markets. I don't truely believe them

that the meat didn't enter the market. And keep in mind, it isn't

just the meat that can pass along mad cow to humans. It is also

transmitable via geletin, from what I understand.

 

In my manner of thinking, they waited a bit too long to

come clean about it all for anything they have to say now

to be completely believed. It is very difficult for me to trust

an industry with shoddy ethics like this. Another thing in the

back of my mind is how the USDA guys were warned not to

stop production lines unless they were 100% certain the meat

is tainted. And if they did and it wasn't rotten or tainted outright,

then they would be fired for stopping the money making process;

I think Gene posted that article a while back. Now if the inspectors

are under that kind of threat to keep the meat going through at

all costs, it would only seem likely to me that mad cow and other

crud gets allowed through.

 

~ PT ~

 

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood

or appreciated.

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, " _- matrixenos -_ " <

matrixenos@h...> wrote:

> (not to thrilled by that last paragraph, S.)

>

> USDA: Quarantined Canadian Cattle Never in U.S.

> Thu May 22, 2003 11:55 AM ET

> By Randy Fabi

[Guest guest]

Yep, that kind of directive spoken of in that article is both sick and

corrupt.

 

S.

 

 

 

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live on nothing but food and

water.

- W.C. Fields

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: USDA: Quarantined Canadian Cattle Never in

U.S.

Thu, 22 May 2003 18:46:02 -0000

 

Yes, it is likely this press release is just a cover-up and

spin to keep stocks from falling too quickly in the beef

industry and fast food markets. I don't truely believe them

that the meat didn't enter the market. And keep in mind, it isn't

just the meat that can pass along mad cow to humans. It is also

transmitable via geletin, from what I understand.

 

In my manner of thinking, they waited a bit too long to

come clean about it all for anything they have to say now

to be completely believed. It is very difficult for me to trust

an industry with shoddy ethics like this. Another thing in the

back of my mind is how the USDA guys were warned not to

stop production lines unless they were 100% certain the meat

is tainted. And if they did and it wasn't rotten or tainted outright,

then they would be fired for stopping the money making process;

I think Gene posted that article a while back. Now if the inspectors

are under that kind of threat to keep the meat going through at

all costs, it would only seem likely to me that mad cow and other

crud gets allowed through.

 

~ PT ~

 

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood

or appreciated.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~~~>

, " _- matrixenos -_ " <

matrixenos@h...> wrote:

> (not to thrilled by that last paragraph, S.)

>

> USDA: Quarantined Canadian Cattle Never in U.S.

> Thu May 22, 2003 11:55 AM ET

> By Randy Fabi

 

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