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[kato]

Check out CNN...potential mad cow in the States.

The plot thickens.

[grassfarmer]

Although I dread to think of the implications of this new twist part of me can't help saying "ha,ha" I guess we will have to see how the US likes to be shut out of International markets. Do you think it might be a Canadian cow? or a terrorist conspiracy?

[wbrower]

grassfarmer, your comments should make you eligible for brain surgery, that is if canadian taxpayers will pay for it.

[Bruce14]

Before anyone gets laughing too loud grassfarmer lets hope that cow didn't come from Canada!

[topper]

If this story is true what would this mean for the canadain cattle industry. I would presume that Canada would immediately close the border from this side. Then what? Are we left with just our domestic market? Doesn't sound like good news that's for sure.

[rusty1]

It's easy to say "If I" however some of our over fat cattle (50 truck loads) should be loaded onto trucks in the cover of darkness and crash the gates at Couts (in the dark) and head for Miller and Greely. They would be a long way down there before anyone had time to react.

[Allan-PEI]

grassfarmer,my first reaction was to say what goes around comes around,then I thought how this could affect our shaky industry.We are in it with them now

[grefer]

Before everyone goes off on a tangent lets try to take a few sober breaths.This was sure to happen providing there was no cover up.It is somewhat encouraging to see that the U.S. is upfront about this.Time will tell as to the origin of this cow,but in the mean time what are the implications for Canada?I think that this will force those in power to look realistcally at the implications of have one,two,three.. cases of BSE reported and the real implications this has on our over all food safety.In the general scheme of things the chance of dying from the human form of BSE is reatively small compared to many other ways of dying.Just a thought!

[boone]

I just hope this forces both government AG divisions U.S. And CDN etc. to use science based risk assesment here and stop all the knee JERK reactions on both sides of the border and beyond. I suspect we will both wear this one before it is done. But let's say a little prayer, that Japan and South Korea can forgive both of our trespasses.

[rusty1]

The Japaneeze lose more people every year from eating their Blow fish. We lost more to West Nile, the americans lost more this fall to the Flue. Now we have to get to the common sence table and start expounding some good old cowboy logic. And put this horride year behind after the US pays back a bunch of what it has cost you and me. The scary thing is how will the border open. The Americans can still suck up our industry with their pockets full of money so we aren't out of the wood work yet.