WOW!!!!
I always have mixed opinions on all of these matters....
As some of you might know from my other posts in the Canada Forum, Im American-Canadian (born in the US, but now live in Canada and EVERYONE else in my family is Canadian born. think Mexican-American)
Anyways, this thread is about beef!
I live in Calgary, so when the first case of mad cow was discovered there was a huge cry for everyone to buy alberta beef. I did, why not, it was cheap and Im a starving college student. When mad cow was discovered in the US, I was @ a co-workers house watching the news and they cheered (literaly like they won the lottery) then they thought I might be upset by their sort of anti-american cheers so they tried to explain their selves I didnt care,Im a minority so Im used to it and see both sides (my ignorant american self likes to think i see both sides)
the thing is when Canadian beef was banned in the states, US cattle ranches hit the gold mine, (think reebok shoes all of the sudden hearing nike cant sell shoes anymore) and then when mad cow was found down there no-one would buy US cattle.
so when the border was to reopen it, of course they don't want it to happen, so they lobbied (on behalf of health safety) to stop it. some might say mad cow is bullshit, others dont....
they got ONE judge to support them and I suppose it will delay things for a while.
Ive read that Bush wants trading of beef to resume, so I assume that beef should be flowing sometime soon.
I highly doubt this has anything to do w/ missle defense, I think of that subject as buying a new house and wanting to put up a fence alonside with your neighbo(u)r. you both get benefits of privacy from the fence so it's only fair that you see if you want to go in on a fence and split the cost. (thats my opinion on it)