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Cattle Group Addresses Worries About Protein That BSE Cow At
USAgNet ^ | 10/12/2004 | USAgNet

Posted on 10/13/2004 7:18:05 AM PDT by Calpernia

Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund of the United Stockgrowers of America, Billings, Montana, reported that it has fielded numerous calls from members and media inquiring about recent news reports that indicate byproduct proteins of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy-positive cow discovered in Canada in May 2003 were rendered into livestock feed and may have been mistakenly fed to cattle.

R-CALF stated in a release that USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has known of this problem for more than one year. R-CALF cited an APHIS report dated October 3, 2003, as the source of this information.

In formal comments to APHIS on January 5, 2004, R-CALF wrote: "Even more alarming is that the BSE infected cow discovered in Canada on May 20, 2003, was rendered in Canada, and APHIS reported that the rendered cow could have been distributed to approximately 1,800 sites, including 1,200 individual producers or consumers."

R-CALF USA president Leo McDonnell continued: "We are extremely disappointed that USDA -- charged with protecting the economic interests of the U.S. cattle industry under its congressional mandate to prevent, detect, control, and eradicate animal diseases -- has not addressed this problem in a more serious context, especially in light of its own efforts to liberalize U.S. import standards when dealing with countries like Canada where BSE has been found."

R-CALF said it warned APHIS in its January comments that the distribution of the Canadian cow's infected remains within the Canadian animal-feed system.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aphis; bovine; bse; cattle; feed; spongiform; usda

1 posted on 10/13/2004 7:18:06 AM PDT by Calpernia
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To: farmfriend

ping


2 posted on 10/13/2004 7:18:30 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Is cattle feed ever given to horses?


3 posted on 10/13/2004 7:20:03 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

I don't know about whether it goes into feed but it goes into supplements such as those containing bone meal or bone ash.


4 posted on 10/13/2004 7:23:33 AM PDT by ArmedNReady (George Bush has wood for the Democrats)
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To: Calpernia

R-CALF should get a rating right up with PETA. Their politically driven, scare-tactic, poor science, big government intervention, money-waste, anti-trade agenda would have and is having serious industry consequences.

Don't be fooled by their propaganda.

Prairie


5 posted on 10/13/2004 7:28:28 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (The Old Media is no longer a news service. It's a transcription service for the DNC.)
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To: Calpernia
BSE/Mad Cow hype and hysteria is one of the bigger trunped up stories of recent years. meant to cause irrational fear and the lib vegan dream.
6 posted on 10/13/2004 7:50:17 AM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: prairiebreeze

bump!


7 posted on 10/13/2004 8:36:19 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: tallhappy

I enjoyed a nice steak last night :)


8 posted on 10/13/2004 8:37:03 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
9 posted on 10/13/2004 11:11:59 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: Sloth

Since I ping the list before I added you, you get your own ping for this one.


10 posted on 10/13/2004 11:14:19 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: farmfriend

Wow, I'm touched. :)


11 posted on 10/13/2004 11:16:46 AM PDT by Sloth ("Rather is TV's real-life Ted Baxter, without Baxter's quiet dignity." -- Ann Coulter)
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To: Calpernia

I grilled three of those extra thick Rib Eye steaks from Costco last night for us. MMmmmmmmm.....


12 posted on 10/13/2004 11:24:11 AM PDT by tubebender (If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: Sloth
Wow, I'm touched.

Many of us have long suspected that you were.

13 posted on 10/13/2004 11:27:30 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!!


14 posted on 10/13/2004 11:29:51 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Mr. Lucky

Around these parts, we pronounce it "tetched".


15 posted on 10/13/2004 11:47:45 AM PDT by Sloth ("Rather is TV's real-life Ted Baxter, without Baxter's quiet dignity." -- Ann Coulter)
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To: Calpernia
R-CALF USA president Leo McDonnell continued: "We are extremely disappointed that USDA -- charged with protecting the economic interests of the U.S. cattle industry under its congressional mandate to prevent, detect, control, and eradicate animal diseases -- has not addressed this problem in a more serious context, especially in light of its own efforts to liberalize U.S. import standards when dealing with countries like Canada where BSE has been found."

He knows damned well the meatpacking industry is interested in promoting imported cattle to fatten their margins. The meatpackers (an oligopoly) are playing games to prevent the USDA from implementing country of origin labeling, so far, quite successfully.

16 posted on 10/13/2004 11:49:12 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Three choices: Defeat Islam, submit, or die.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Interestingly R-CALF supports COOL only up until the point where it employs individual animal identification. Then it's "WHOA NELLY! We don't want anything to be able to be traced back to OUR feedlots!"

Sort of defeats the purpose of the former to obstruct the latter, wouldn't you say?

Prairie


17 posted on 10/13/2004 12:32:58 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (The Old Media is no longer a news service. It's a transcription service for the DNC.)
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To: prairiebreeze

Agreed. This in-fat-uation with feedlots and the way we overlook their quality problems, simply to create a market for subsidized grain, has out-lived its usefulness. Real accountability favors the family rancher, at least in my book.


18 posted on 10/13/2004 12:36:05 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Three choices: Defeat Islam, submit, or die.)
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