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June 4, 2008 According to a Canadian Press article this week, Canada’s beef industry is pressuring the Canadian government to adopt weaker U.S. feed ban rules. Last summer, the federal government the inclusion of spinal cords, cattle brains and other “specific risk material” that could contain bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, which causes mad cow disease) from feed, pet foods and fertilizer, writes CP. But starting next April, the U.S. government is introducing less strenuous rules, which has the cattle lobby in Canada getting ready for battle. “The Canadian rules are more stringent,” writes CP. “They also ban the use of skulls, eyes, tonsils, nerve bundles and part of the small intestine of all cattle. The Canadian rules also apply to fertilizer, while the U.S. rule does not.” "What the U.S. is doing is the approach the Canadian Cattlemen's Association was asking for all along in Canada," John Masswohl, director of international relations, told CP. "We have no difficulty asking for Canada to adopt the U.S. approach." Several large meat processing plants run by Gencor Foods Inc., and U.S. behemoths Cargill and Tyson have closed plants in Canada recently, putting hundreds out of work. The Cattlemen are trying to blame Canada’s stricter rules.
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