Re: Those Darned Americans

Posted by R. John Johnson on October 14, 2004 at 21:44:31 from (205.200.43.122):

In Reply to: Those Darned Americans posted by Malamute on October 14, 2004 at 20:41:29:

The whole BSE flap is sickening. In the end everyone is going to lose. Our big problem is that we relied on shipping a large portion of our cattle to the US for slaughter. Now we are in process of expanding our slaugher capacity to match our herd. Then we will go looking for overseas markets and compete directly with the US. When the border opens there will be an over capacity of slaughter plants and some will have to close and people will be out of jobs. US workers are already out of jobs in some plants because they can"t get Canadian cattle to kill. A local co-op is buying a Pre-Fab plant from Washington State. They were slaughtering cows from Canada and went belly up when the border closed.

Also a lot of consumers would not be happy to learn that some of the high priced meat in the supermarket came from Canada, at fire sale prices. The big packers are making a killing off this situation.

Just to stir the pot a little more, most cattlemen up here do not want Kerry to win the election. He is on record as stating he wants to keep the border closed.

Sorry for the rant, but the frustration levels up here are getting a little high

John

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