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[rkaiser]

Japan will open to Canada and the USA at the same time.

The USA is not fooling anyone in the world with their BSE free status.

Any markets accessed currently by the USA and not by Canada or vise versa are politically motivated period. ie Cuba.

Do you realise kpb what small amount of beef need to be shipped offshore to tip the scale from American dependence to Asian majority.

All we are saying is place some eggs in some other baskets so we don't get ourselves in the mess we have been for the last two years again. If we had one more country to be as much of a friend as Mexico has been for the past two years, AND the slaughter capacity to match our output, we could leave that American border alone if need be.

But yes, America has the bucks, and America has the consumers. And America is right next door. We can and will sell to America, but we can't let America treat us with the respect of a hooker. There when HE needs us and on the street when HE don't.

[kpb]

rkaiser, if you believe in globalization, the idea of opening new markets is appealing. Although I am opposed to globalization of trade because I think it does not help the individual producer at all and largely benefits the large multi-national corporations, I do not oppose opening new markets. However if we have to test more animals to attempt to open more markets I believe we are as farmers_son says, playing fast and loose with our industry. It is far more important to our future to not find another case of BSE than it is to look good in front of the international community.

As far as politics being the key word to opening new markets, that is exactly my point--why would you want to test every animal when it is, as you say, politics that is the key to getting the markets open? All we can do by testing more is discover more and that is not a good thing no matter how you slice it. As I said before, the world is not beating a path to our door--how come since we've been such good guys and so transparent about our BSE crisis?

kpb

[rkaiser]

It's all in the way we use words kpb. I am not going to convince you that testing will open markets because you do not believe it will. Testing will only find more, you say. Hard to argue with that. But talking about our survailance program being transparent is only one step less than the lieing that the American's are doing.

If you read the BIG C proposal, marketing beef beyond the coasts of North America is about putting a ship in the water beside the multinationals, and as Ted Haney of CBEF is now saying, asking what we can do to satisfy customer demands. If that includes BSE testing, I say go for it.

I also respect your opinion kpb.

[BWC]

It really does,nt matter what you beleive will or will not increase our sales, export or otherwise if in the event that the venerable judge Cebull is in fact able to turn his partisan injunction into a permanent situation , we darn well better have some protocols in place as Mr. Haney is advocating. Will any common sense ever enter this picture?