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The way I see it, from the point of view of a ninth generation grower of "contaminated Canadian beef"...
The people who are complaining the loudest about free trade, with ANYONE, are the same people who didn't want to allow immigration so that we could lower production costs here at home. You can't have it both ways.
Suck, OR, blow into the straw, you cant do BOTH at the same time.
As long as people want to buy the cheapest product, instead of the best quality product, there will always be a strong motivation to produce something cheaper than the next guy.
Don't blame the politicians, stand outside a Wally World or a Kill Mart and yell at the people coming out with carts overflowing with cheap merchandise from overseas.
Sincerly, another P/O'd dude, eh?
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BTW, just to set the record straight......
RETAIL beef prices, on average nationwide, are only about 6% lower than before the BSE comotion, so the US ranchers who can't "get too much on the open market for theirs" should blame the wholesalers and retialers who are pocketing the difference.
Historically, the US imported about 1.75 MILLION head of cattle a year from Canada, if we look at just the last 25 years, that comes to more than 40 MILLION animals.
One cow out of 40+ million somehow becomes "contaminated Canadian beef"... How does that work?
BTW, what about the two "contaminated" cows in the US? Including the latest one they won't even disclose the history on, rumours have it that cow was born and raised in the good ole' US of A ......
Maybe with all that money from the illegal tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber the US government can spread some around to the farmers who need it.
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It wasn't a matter of 'pushing buttons', I would correct anyone who was making an incorrect statement about anything, period.
The bottom line is, more Americans make money off Canadian cattle than not. Not just wholesalers either, truckers, feedlot employees and owners, cutters, processors, manufacturers, etc., etc., etc.
Besides, "ground up animal matter", presumably you mean bone meal in the feed, is just one instance where animals eat 'animal matter' and have since time immemorial, cows, as just one animal example, instinctively eat the placenta and lots worse, after calving to try to hide the existance of calves from predators. Pigs must be kept seperate from piglets because canibalism is so prevalent.
As for the 'Canadian' issue, it wasn't really a factor, especially considering I also have a US passport and was an American serviceman. Where you?
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Well now, two more things we have in common, I got shot at, in Grenada, by a Grenadian, AFTER we had just 'liberated' them from the Cubans.
Go figure!!!
You could certainly say I was less than polite to the gentleman who shot at me.
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Meta, one of the first things those nice people in Quantico, Virginia taught me years ago, was to be nice to all the people we encountered and treat them with respect.
Right up to, and sometimes even after the BANG.
That's called Battlefield Diplomacy ......
Best of luck.
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