Whatever happened to the guy

[Bruce14]

who shipped the infamous cow that tested positive for BSE? I saw him on T.V. once and haven't heard anymore since. Here in the Sask. media the McCrae family were constantly hounded and interviewed. They had more patience than I would have.

[ALICIA]

I am also conserned for the familys of the lost cattle. Know one seems to have given them much needed support, or because I do not live close by, I have heard nothing.

[stevek]

I think everyone would like to know if he's still around. Like you, we seen him on TV once, he did'nt seem to tore up about anything, and that was the end of it. The media stories on the other families were so hard to watch and they kept focusing on them. I would like to know if he left and went back to catfishing???

[Bruce14]

I didn't start this thread out of concern for the doughhead that shipped the cow. I was curious if he was hanging from a rope or not. I heard he had disappeared back to the U.S.

In the CFIA report just released it stated that the cow had been sent to slaughter for his own use. I doubt that very much. It was more like a case of a greedy, stupid individual trying to squeeze a nickel out of a downer cow.

I hope he has many long years ahead of him to think of the grief he has caused an entire nation.

[rusty1]

Whoa Whoa Whoa I'm sure he feels unbelievabley terrible. Even if he had done it on purpose - seeing what it's done must be devastating to him and his family. I don't think that we as mankind really have any justification to respond the way we are. I'm in the beef industry too, and love what I do, and our future hangs in the balance too. Howevever I have enough "road rash" to know that when I reture anger and meaness it will come back to bight me in the but too. We all knew that we were going to face this kind of situation some day. It was a matter of time.
If I was to point any finger I would point it at those who stood in the way of taking the required steps to insure a consise and quick tracking sustem to have put a lid on the whole situation much sooner.
Our Liberal eastern buracrates have faied us as did the tracking system.
So lets be carefull that we only point fingers when we know the facts and evaluate things objectively.

[stevek]

If he feels that bad, then maybe he should explain to everyone of us why the h#$@ he pulled a sick cow on a trailer and took her for slaughter. Real cattlemen DO NOT do that. I agree with Bruce14, may his nightmares never end. If this comes back to bite me in the butt, well so be it. With drought for 2 years and finally a rain this spring, we thought we just might keep on going in this business. There is enough bad politics without having idiots raising cattle who have no idea what they are doing.

[rusty1]

Those of you who would like to see just due to the ownerer of the indexed cow are probably the same onew who fought the CCIA tagging system

[Bruce14]

Actually Rusty there are many of us that feel this way that have also been great supporters of the CCIA tagging program. It is not perfect but I don't know how anyone can not see its merits now.

The question is not the tagging program but how could an individual be so greedy to jeopardize so many livliehoods and an entire industry.

Question. If he was so desperate to make a buck on that downer cow, how many times do you think he followed the withdrawal period on a bottle of medication?

[jensend]

No matter how she was disposed of she still had BSE. Maybe you should focus your ire against the person who fed her the contaminated feed. That would be just as productive because he probably didn't know anything about exactly how the feed was constituted.

[rusty1]

Yeh we could focus ourselves on a lot of things - which would waste our time and energy and accomplish nothing. If the CFIA know how the old cow got BSE, their not telling us. It's just all speculation. They can't haven't even found her birth herd with all the DNA testing they did, and the 2000 head they slaughtered. So let's be productive and focus our attention on how to prevent this from happening again, and insure our food safty and valuie.
One question I have is why have our Provincial and Canadian Vet. organizations not come out of the closset and taken more leadership in public.