Government Fights Mad Cow Testing

[Madalch]

And that's at the core of all this mad cow stuff. Not just with Japan, but Europe as well.

Every time there's a problem, mad cow, or the hormone to produce more milk, whatever, there's no shortage of politicians who are looking for an excuse to immediately ban imports.

That's not just beef, but other foodstuffs as well.

Who remembers the late 80s when some grapes from Chile were found to be injected with cyanide? Exactly two grapes. How long did it take for people to start buying Chilean fruit again? (And since they never found any more such grapes, and I'm sure they would have started looking very hard, it seems likely that the person who found them was also the person doing the injection.)

Did you find a cow with mad cow disease? Quick- brand it with a maple leaf so we can claim it was just imported, so it's the Canadian industry that suffers instead of the local one.

Did the kids at your school get sick from tainted local strawberries? Blame the imported raspberries they ate last week.

 

[PeekaBoo]

Why do I get the impression if ONE port decided on their own to check EVERY shipping container that entered this country, the administration would take steps to prevent that also?

If only this admin. was as devoted to protecting America & Americans as they were to their corporate buddies. If only.

 

[Puppycow]

Why do I get the impression if ONE port decided on their own to check EVERY shipping container that entered this country, the administration would take steps to prevent that also?

If only this admin. was as devoted to protecting America & Americans as they were to their corporate buddies. If only.

Wouldn't importers stop using that port?

 

[Beerina]

From the title, I thought this thread would be about some Republican lawmaker objecting to Senator Clinton's breast cancer exams being paid for by the taxpayer.

DR

Did you ever notice this three-way "separated at birth"?

• Young Hillary in college
  
• Susan Smith, the woman who 10 years ago drowned her kids in a car because her boyfriend didn't want them, then claimed the car had been carjacked by a black man
  
• Saffy from Absolutely Fabulous