...over importing Canadian cattle. Let the contrasting business lobbies go at each other like the vultures they are:
from Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/03/03/cattle/index.html :
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"They've got mad cow disease," said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. "Now the question is, should we run the risk of opening our border to livestock imports from Canada, when the evidence demonstrates clearly they're not enforcing their regulations to reduce the risk to them and to us?"
Agriculture officials had planned to reopen the border next Monday. However, a federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary injunction sought by Western ranchers seeking to keep the ban in place.
Western ranchers saw near-record cattle prices last year and want to protect those prices by refusing Canadian cattle.
U.S. meatpackers, however, say their inability to buy Canadian cattle has cost their industry more than $1.7 billion, forcing layoffs and idling production.
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