Re: NAIS

Dean Hoffman wrote:

> Isn't one of the primary reasons for NAIS overseas marketing? Japan
> cut off US imports after the first BSE scare as I remember. They just
> recently allowed the importation of beef from cattle under 21 months at
> slaughter.
> I don't see that this will help the safety of the US consumer. The US
> imports more beef than it exports if memory serves.

Imports are part of the problem. Canada just had two more cases of Mad
Cow, both apparently caused by feeding cattle out of feed bunks that
hadn't been cleaned in years. How many potentially infected cattle
have been imported into the USA? It's going to take a while to find
out, and it may be impossible to locate them.

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