More POST feedban BSE

[Willowcreek]

CattleNetwork_Today 2/7/2007 5:47:00 PM


Cattle Alert: BSE Confirmed In Alberta, Canada

OTTAWA, February 7, 2007 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a mature bull from Alberta. The animal's carcass is under CFIA control, and no part of it entered the human food or animal feed systems.

Preliminary information indicates that the age of the animal falls well within the age range of previous cases detected in Canada under the national BSE surveillance program. This signifies that the animal was exposed to a very small amount of infective material, most likely during its first year of life.

An epidemiological investigation directed by international guidelines is underway to examine what the animal was fed early in its life and to identify its herdmates at the time. All findings will be publicly released once the investigation concludes.

Under Canada's enhanced feed ban, which comes into effect on July 12, 2007, BSE should be eliminated from the national cattle herd within approximately 10 years. The CFIA expects the periodic detection of a limited number of cases to continue as the level of BSE continues to decline.

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=104342

[farmers_son]

The CFIA link is:

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/ab2007/9notavie.shtml

Willowcreek's post deleted the following portion of the official announcement:

"The finding of a mature animal should not impact Canada's BSE country categorization submission to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The science-based BSE risk-level determination process requires that a country is able to demonstrate a full understanding of the pathways that resulted in BSE exposure and expression, as well as the implementation of appropriate comprehensive measures to block those pathways and protect human and animal health, leading to the eradication of the disease over time.

The animal was identified at the farm level by the national surveillance program, which has detected all cases found in Canada. The program targets the highest risk cattle populations and has tested roughly 150,000 animals since 2003. The surveillance results reflect an extremely low incidence of BSE in Canada."

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Nowhere is it suggested that this animal contracted BSE post feedban, although I am sure R-Calfers are hoping it did. Really this should be a non event but politics being what they are we will have to wait and see.

[whiteface]

Much appreciate that you would keep us all informed, Willow.
More appreciation to f-s for makeing sure we got the "whole story" instead of just what suited some people. Try not to freeze Willow, can't imagine what we'd talk about without you! Have a safe, hopefully not too cold of an evening all!

[Willowcreek]

Actually it is Manitoba Rancher thats reporting on ranchers.net this is a 2000 model bull that tested BSE positive!!!

Which If so---That would be born after the USDA's proposed Rule 2 March 1999 magic date that they said would be safe to export to the US....

Which means if we had Rule 2 in operation now this bull could have been slaughtered and tested at one of our US Slaughter Plants- accrediting the US with another BSE positive and stalling all export talks for a couple more years, while further damaging domestic confidence and demand.....

Or it could have been slaughtered in one of our US Slaughter Plants- not tested and ended up in hundreds/thousands of pounds of burger meat to be spread thruout the US- with parts ending up in various animal feeds....

[rkaiser]

Your night Willowcreek. Dance around and entertain Cargill and Tyson with your antics. You are the biggest clown on the web.

Can't see anything but your primitive patriotic protectionist agenda,can you? While Cargill and Tyson use your mouth and that of Rcalf to prolong the salmon run and destroy any hope of samll to medium sized packers from making any headway in the Northern United states.

I won't post again Willowcreek. It's your night to shine. Lick those windows on the way home from the bar tonight Oldtimer, maybe you will see the northern lights and you can dream of shooting them down as well.

[mb_rancher]

keep dancing and singing OT!! All I posted on Ranchers was that I heard it was a 2000 model. I heard this through the g**** vine. Chances are the bull is older than that.

[FRENCHMAN]

Ot more heresay once again

[rkaiser]

Hay FRENCHMAN. You just won a million bucks.I think I heard the American company that bought out agriville say that if someone posted at exactly 0:00, they would win a million. Way to go bud!!!

[Willowcreek]

mb_rancher posted Feb 7, 2007 23:09
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quote--"keep dancing and singing OT!! All I posted on Ranchers was that I heard it was a 2000 model. I heard this through the g**** vine. Chances are the bull is older than that."

Now wonder you got so much BSE--Keeping bulls until they are antigues-- 7-9 years old is still POST feedban-- your cattle are so inbred they are probably hatching the virus..LOL


OK-- I get this now-- Canucks can post rumors about Canadian bad news and that is OK---but if an American posts a rumor about Canadian bad news its a No-No and he is chastised...

Sounds about right- coming from a Socialist country that wouldn't know what FAIR trade is if it bit them in the butt...LOL

What a bunch of whiners....

[cowman]

Not sure why this is a surprize? If you run a surveliance program you will probably find them? This is a good thing in the big picture!
Now what the Asians should be asking is this: "HOW COME THE USA ISN"T FINDING ANYMORE BSE CASES?"
The science says they should? Would you be happy buying from a country that is obviously fudging the figures?
Instead of R-CALF and Willowcreek spinning this off as another protectionist thread they should be insisting their government find out the extent of their problem? You can sweep the dirt under the rug but sooner or later it will come back to haunt you?