What does this mean???

[grassfarmer]

Cowman you point out that the USA decided over and under 30 month cattle had to be killed in seperate plants. This is just another piece of British legislation transferred to North America. When we had the big market collapse in 1996 due to BSE and virtually no animals were moving through the auctions/kill plants for nearly three weeks the NFU suggested to the Government that they start differentiating between over and under 30 month animals. The Government was out of ideas so jumped at this suggestion and ever since have been incinerating everything over 30 months.I think it is unfortunate that Canada when faced with 1 BSE case picked all the rules set up in Britain where they had a far greater problem with BSE. It's great how this magic thirty month rule is set in stone - it certainly is not a product of "sound science". It seems however that it will mean the different age animals will be killed in seperate plants for many years to come.