"Shiver Me Timbers" wrote in message
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Bob Noel wrote:

and if my feeble facts serve me well, that second case was a cow
from Canada... Last I heard, Canadian officials didn't believe
that and so a lot of folks were researching.

It probably was Bob.... But we sent it to the US of A so that you
Americans could see first hand what happens when your borders get
closed to beef exports and what happens when your government runs
around like the proverbial chicken with it's head cut off.

It actually helped the situation. You guys fed the little cows their
chopped up brothers and sisters when they were yearlings. Cows get sold to
someone here and when it is about 4-5 yeras old it has mad cow disease. So
now we know that it takes several years for a cow to develop the disease and
that a cow that would develop the disease but is butchered prior to that is
perfectly safe.



It's not a pleasant experience to the thousands of farmers and ranchers
who lives have been destroyed or put into utter turmoil or those who
work in the industry whether they are a truck driver who delivers
cattle, those that slaughter them, or those that sell them.

It had little to no effect here in the states. The price has held steady
since the highs last summer and early fall.