What are the ramifications?

[farmers_son]

It is going to be interesting to see how many heads will be sent in from animals put down on the farm, and also how many 4D cows are sent to be euthanized.

[kato]

Far better to find a positive at a landfill than a packing plant if it comes to that.

It will be up to each individual to decide what to do with their animals. There will be some who want to volunteer, and some who won't. We all have to sit down and decide for ourselves.

Whatever we decide as individuals, as long as we get enough to fill the quota that's what matters.

We've got to keep some perspective here... if BSE was prevalent you would have thought that another would show up in the thousands of cattle who were associated with our Alberta cow. It didn't.

[cowman]

Well kato, how many cows has Japan got and how many cases of BSE have they found? I'm not sure of the cow numbers but I think the BSE total is up to 11? Maybe not a big number but it was less than that when it destroyed their industry? What happens when the day comes, when(and if) we find some more?
Perspective is all fine and dandy but how are we going to tell that to the consumer? When the day comes that the housewife loses confidence that she could be feeding her kids a safe product, will be the day she stops buying!
I've said it from day one...test everything...or at least everything over twenty months old? Even one case of Jakob Creutzfeld disease is unacceptable? And I don't know if BSE evens causes it, but if there is even the possibility then we should be testing? The test price has come down and we need to view it as just the cost of doing business...just like the traceable tags are a cost of doing business? Food safety has got to be a priority and not just a smoke and mirrors sort of thing?