that sometimes the Yanks are cleverer.

   

Not Cleverer.... SNEAKIER...

   

Yes, you need to be pretty clever to get away with being dishonest. I wonder how many USDA veterinarians lie awake at night wondering when the first case of mad cow shows up in a US citizen or one of the other 90 countries the US exports beef to.

   

So that's how the Us has magically managed to not have a case of BSE....

I saw that bit on the National last night and it was eye-opening. I'm surprised there haven't been more cases. Especially with the lax monitoring system in the US concerning Mad Cow.

   

if anyone should happen to take a case of CJS to a doctor, and what Yank can afford to see one, don't you think the doctors are as easily controllable ad the vets? If they can cover it up in cows they can cover it up in people.

   

They probably, carefully sent the meat to a third world country.

   

Or probably sent it into their own food chain. In the US, if a cow is suspected of having BSE, it is still allowed to be sent for processing and potential sale while the tests are still being done! Furthermore, if BSE (or another similar disease) a recall would only be voluntary.

   

Has anyone noticed that America repeatedly makes it look like they can't be wrong?? Not the people, but the government. We build the Avro Arrow, they blackmail us into destroying it (Goes to show how we have such good posture for the government of the time had no spine .). And now they try to cover up the fact that they might have been wrong and have a BSE cow of their own. So they try with all their might to cover it up.........sheesh .

   

Are we going to see a call for a ban on the importation of American beef?

   

not to mention the blackout, it was canada's fault wasnt it ???

   

Am i missing something here, what does the conservatives have to do with it. It's been the Liberal MP's that have been calling Americans bastards and morons the pass couple years, that the reason the border remains closed. And i'm sure there are farmers on both sides of the border that are digging graves for there suspect cows.

   

Caused by Canadian beer, Black Label. I have them every weekend.

   

I remember when mad cows first started showing up in Canada. Back then I used to read and occasionally post on the now-defunct CBC forums.

Canadians at first couldn't believe this could happen in Canada and not the US. Most theorized it was a plot by the US. Then more cases came up, then the feed containing cow parts was also found to be Canadian and it became difficult to deny Canada had problems.

Then the subject shifted to the fact that the superior Canadian system couldn't possibly allow tainted beef into the human food chain and that became the new mantra, "at least our mad cows stay out of the food chain".

Now we know that isn't true either.

http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/Vie ... -cow050108




Doesn't Canada still ban imports of Japanese beef?