Mad Cow RANT
You know… I’m getting a little ticked about this Mad Cow stuff. When Canada got its case this past year, the word, including the US, went nuts. How can this happen? Canada must be a backward country to allow such things to happen. Countries like the US and Japan took no chances proposing that it raised a SIGNFICANT health risk to consumers. From then on, the Canadian economy was crippled for months (combined with the SARS outbreak – which I found funny that the US didn’t have one single case…hmmmm), and is in fact still on a slow recovery. I would also like to point out that it is known that the cow that was found to be infected in Canada originated in the US, but that story was quickly hushed for some reason (more “hmmmmm”).
Now the tables are turned. Mad Cow is now in the US. Oh, but all of a sudden there is no significant risk to consumers. No one should be worried at all. No problems what so ever. And oh, it probably came from Canada anyway right? In fact, instead of blocking imports from the US, we should just continue to block imports from Canada until the entire country is crippled. Meanwhile, during Mad Cow in Canada, US beef producers saw the best year in history – zero competition from Canada – which helps to explain 8.X growth rate in the US and only 1.X in Canada. Eagerly watching how the media/government spin will work its magic on the consumer.