Action on Beef Ban

Last week I heard about this small campaign launched last week due to the US beef ban. It is a national boycott campaign. It is on all products made in, printed in or product of USA. This campaign has been growing steadily. It is asking people to spread the word to their friends, family and all of Canada. It will only stop once the border is open to Canada's beef.

I support free trade. However, if the United States doesn't want to play by that game, then neither should I. I joined into this last Friday and I feel good. So far, since then, I bought 12 items. USA 0: Canada 12. Fruits and Veggies might be the exception here. However for Apples I purchase BC Apples. I encourage everyone to join in. Read the labels carefully. The company might be from USA but the item may have been made in or produced in Canada. You do not want to boycott those.

An excellent idea, Celine. I would suggest that it be about more than just beef though, and be about trade in general. The beef ban is just one more example of US trade practices that are, at best, predatory.

[font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] I wonder if these new calls for keeping the border closed to Canadian beef are reactions to the Canadian government not joining the Missle defense system.

The Senate bill likely was, but the judge's decision has more to do with local Montana politics.

Canadians should be doing that anyway. Always give prefrence to the Made in Canada stuff.

There's a Canadian Alternative for almost everything you buy.

I now live stateside and still buy Canadian every chance I get.

I heard something about the gov. theatening to stop allowing the US to use that Vancouver airport to ship to or recieve beef from Hawaii. Anyone hear about this, I just heard about it and don't know the full story.

I always try to check the label as to where a product is made. Made in Canada rules (like the CKA t-shirts)

Hmmm another subject that is close to home. What we should be doing is getting the federal government to cut the red tape and get some more plants built in canada so that we can prepare our own beef. Then we keep the cattle here and just send the meat.

There are people down there who want the canadian cattle, like the meat producers. They are laying off staff because the US feedlots cannot keep up with demand. What I do not understand is how one group R-CALF and one circut court judge can override the Government of the United States? These are a bunch of rich cattle producers who are making oodles of money with the higher prices of cattle down there due to supply and demand.

I agree with the buying Canadian issue and also we need someone from the Canadian Government to get tough ( YA RIGHT) with the Americans and stand up for the people of this country who produce the food that is on our tables.

Another thing that is getting to me about this issue is the amount of restaraunts that are selling impoted beef. Why are these establishments not selling Canadian Beef???????? K coming down off my soapbox now.

I buy most things I need right from the producer that way the guy at the bottom actually gets the money. The price of meat in the stores is still ridiculous Then we will waste alot of money destroying the truth.Meat Packers

We don't cooperate with them on a lot of things, especially recently. It's a two way street.

There is no way that the meat prices should be as high as they are with the over abundance of cattle we have here in Alberta right now. They tried this earlier in the year getting the meat packers to release thier books but it didnt work, they refused. I dont want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but the two biggest meat packers in Alberta are American owned so either way you look at it, being R-CALF or Cargill they are still making rediculous profits from the BSE crisis.

Ruez, you need to have the obvious things that have been causing friction in the alliance gone over again?

Ok, quick update:

The tepid response of the Govt to the single biggest attack on the US by terrorists EVER.

Porous refugee and asylum laws or lack of them.

Inneffective border controls and immigration checks (Come on down you war criminals and embezzelers!)

An impotent military that can't really assist in Continental defence.

Backing out of being a full partner in NORAD, (Er who fired those ICBM's?) with the BMD.

Loosening of the weed laws.

Or maybe all these things that Paul Celluci mentioned monthly in the media since 911 are just irritants that the US ignores as it bans our beef and jams our softwood industry. What would you do if you were the Yanks?

Forget about a reluctant ally?

"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives."
- Winston Churchill

I say we ban all American products that we can make ourselves ei. beef, grain, lumber ect.