Parliament of Whores fighting...

[reichstag911]

...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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[seventythree]

1. I hope the ranchers win

as my experience with the packers would give me no assurance that they aren't contaminating with brain and spinal fluid.

[TrogL]

4. There's new checks in place on the Canadian side

that are scientifically sound and accepted by scientists both sides of the border.

[seventythree]

5. then you are for the ranchers, too.

it's the US ranchers (keep Canadian beef out and our prices high) vs the US packers (bring us cheap beef from Canada to boost our profits).

[neuvocat]

2. A little off topic

but "Parliament of Whores" almost sounds like a really cool goth/punk band. You should copyright that phrase.

[reichstag911]

3. It was the title...

...of a very funny book by P.J. O'Rourke: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802139701/qid=1109890060/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-5696464-6242246 .