Should the Canadian border be closed?

[rusty1]

I once heard the numbers - maybe someone out there knows. If we didn't import any foreign beef. I think I heard that we would use close to if not more than 60% of our own beef. Add some foreign trade and the number gets better. Keep some of our wasted "Equalization Paments" and we could all enjoy our own crops at home.
P.S. 2 of my family members work at MacDonalds and they shipped their frozen US beef back from at least 1 store.

[rusty1]

Interesting Alicia what you have said. I see it a bit differently, although you raise a valid point, which could have also been done. Even so, I think a termporary border closure to imported beef would send a very clear message, that our own beef is perfectly safe. Since it is healthy beef, we cannot simply destroy it uselessly - what rational person would expect that? We need to sell it.


Apparently, Canada has a ban on Japanese beef already, I recently heard. Because of their BSE a few years ago. But anyone know how many cases they actually had then, and what procedures they now use to protect against it?

[Muttley]

Japan is causing us as much problem as anyone.

Maybe we should stop buying anything that says made in Japan, and see how long it takes them to shutup and eat are beef(like the politicians over there aren't allready doing it).

[rusty1]

I found the best claification on this who BSE issue - it's a must read. Finally something that makes sence @ http://www.leiss.ca/chronicles/125
William Leiss is a prof at the U of Calgary.

[ALICIA]

OKA I'll read it Rusty