Test all Canadian Beef for BSE

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Me too, rpkaiser, I haven't let up one bit on the need for testing the entire Canadian herd and I'm not getting rich at breeding cattle but I sure do love doing it!! Meeting people, cattle shows, exchangeing ideas, common goals, it's a kinship unlike any other I've known and I've had my mitts in a lot of crap over the years - nothing has had as big a payoff ( in areas other than financial ) as the cattle. Maybe its a "purebred" thing, I don't know but I know your drive and determination is a valuable thing and is likely largely your secret to sucess. Thanks for being on our team, there are days when I want to "give up" too thinking I'm fighting the right to test for BSE all by myself.:-)

[kato]

This website has over 5 thousand members. I'm sure there are lots who come and read the posts without ever posting themselves.

This message is to those good people. The silent majority, so to speak.

On the Cam Osterbank thread, and on the political idea thread you can get a link to that copy of the essay. You can also find a link to the email addresses of all the members of parliament. With a little searching, all the media outlets are accessable.

If even a fraction of those 5 thousand were to contact the government officials, and our cattle organizations and media, think what we could do.

Those in the grain business have as much to lose as we cattle producers have. What will happen if the cow herd drops in half, and half of the pasture and hayland in the country is put back into grain? And half the market for feed grains disappears?

Not a pretty picture.