Mad Cow = Blame the Canadians

[spanone]

The Beef industry is "relieved" to hear that the case of mad cow came from Canada. Don't you feel better now? It's the freakin' Canucks tryin' to give it to the Americans. Truth is, bush is soo cozy with the beef industry that their lobbies have derailed any kind of legislation that would require more frequent testing for mad cow disease. These kinds of tests should have been implemented years ago by the US beef industry. Another case of the consumers be damned and big business moves on. The sad case seems to be that industry ends up paying more in the end. What goes around seems to come around. America is run by lobby groups, not the people. Government of the lobbies, by the lobbies and for the lobbies. Sad nation.

[MacCovern]

1. Sorry, but it was the Canadians

Nothing against the Canadians but they acknowledge sending that cow to the USA. See the following quoted from wire reports:

"....Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian, said on Saturday that Canadian officials provided records indicating the sick Holstein was in a herd of 74 cattle shipped from Alberta, Canada, into this country in August 2001...."

[spanone]

2. This is no excuse for the US not testing our food supply.

We should test every animal. We trust (foolishly) that our government regulations are in place to keep our food supply safe. That is their job. We cannot blame another country for "tainting" our food supply.

[frogfromthenorth2]

3. Wooo... As a Canadian I am offended

to see the amount of disinformation about that case. There is no proof that they are talking about the same cow. They didn't do any serious checkup on this but went ahead and blamed Canada. Shameless...

[pocoloco]

4. Could you also give us the Canadian response to that "statement"?

[Walt Starr]

6. Even if the cow came from Canada

we have no idea when, where, and how it contracted Mad Cow Disease.

IMO, the USDA is conducting itself in an identical fashion to their British counterparts in the 90's.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. Uh, no.

nt

[pretzel4gore]

12. bushco stole your presidency, and you trust them?

forget mad cows...they trying to keep you dancing to their mediawhore tune.
what the mainstream media WANTS the people to think is a lie, you can bank on it. The problem is bigger then a mad cow (poor lil critter) it involves the future of life itself, as the interests seem very very stupid when one considers their record (ie: tobacco, the primacy of cars for transit, nuclear energy, even the feeding of animals to animals by beef industrialists etc)
What about the media itself? how can control of news/info ever be returned to the people, when the criminals' very lives depend on pushing lies day in and day out?

[stopbush]

5. Another attempt to switch the focus of the story.

Following their tried-and-true techniques:

1. Get a blame-shifting story out ASAP. A lie travels round the world before the truth...

2. Blame it on the foreign bogeyman, especially as we no longer have any allies to worry about offending.

3. While the focus of the story should be "The cow should have never been sent to slaughter to begin with, but the repukes have so dismantled our government protections that there are no real protections left," they want the story to be "those furriners tried to kill aMURK-ins...again!"

Yep. In truth, the cow could have come from Timbuktu or from Saddam Hussein and not been a problem if we had the same level of rigorous inspection as Japan and...Canada, for example. But we don't have those protections anymore, thanks to the repukes and their business-friendly deregulation orgy.

[vvera]

8. This whole thing seems pretty easy to fix !

Stop feeding cows chicken shit,cow parts and other nasty things they were never meant to eat. I suggest a local farmer that you can trust or give it up.

[MoonRiver]

10. The easiest solution is to stop eating all meat. There are many

more likely threats from eating meat than MCD. The deregulation of our slaughterhouses and meat packing facilities is dramatically increasing the risk of e-coli tainted meat. I will never knowingly put anything into my mouth that has a meat product in it. This includes (non-vegetarian) gelatin capsules used for vitamins and medicines.

[Meowser]

9. US Propaganda at its finest

Rove & Company really took one from the Josef Goebbels playbook here. The FDA and other regulatory bodies failed Americans with regard to Mad Cow, but let's blame the Canadians, since they've been critical of our policies in Iraq.

Not to mention the grounding of Air France flights as part of this propaganda tactic. Let's blame the French if something happens, or paint their terrorist security apparatus as sub-par. BTW the French are much better equipped at fighting terrorists than piss poor Homeland Security. They have been chasing down Algerian and other terrorist groups for years in their own country.

[Touchdown]

11. Ann Coulter is Canadian?

I thought she was the original Mad Cow. Is this something else we can blame on the Canada?;-)

[catmandu57]

13. Damn beer swilling Canucks Ay

Pass the buck, nevermind that even if the cow was a canadien cow, it could've contracted the disease anywhere. I agree the crap we feed to cows, and our negligent inspections are more to blame than our neighbors to the north.