Reopening the border

The U.S. has discovered another case of BSE. And Canadian ranchers are pointing out the obvious. Canada and the U.S. are now undisputably in the same boat internationally...so there's no reason at all for the U.S. to keep out Canadian cattle anymore.

Of course, don't try telling that to R-CALF. It's bad enough that R-CALF still refuses to acknowledge that the U.S. is no less a "BSE-affected country" than is Canada. But even worse, R-CALF is calling for increased BSE testing while implicitly criticizing the USDA for retesting cattle - including the one that just tested positive.