marika > wrote
> Alvin E. Toda wrote
>> notbob wrote

>> Perhaps the Chinese might also find some mad cow disease in
>> American Beef. That would be the death of the US beef industry.

Nope.

> The Chinese delegation visited the White House only just a few months
> ago, May or June I forget

> Anyway, Bush was interviewed right after the visit concluded and said
> that he was trying to encourage the Chiinese to buy more of it

> I believe the quote was something like: they should buy more Texas
> Beef, it's good for them they'll like it

> The reason why he is flogging Texas beef in particular is so obvious

> but my point here is, if the Chinese did claim BSE,
> it would shut down the world not just the US.

Have fun explaining why that didnt happen with england.

> Prion disease has no known cure, not even close.

You dont need a cure, just get it out of the food supply.

> It wouldn't be a good idea if the Chinese claimed this because it
> would be too hard to distinguish between the US source and any other.

Have fun explaining why it wasnt that hard with england.

> Do you remember a few years ago and they couldn't
> even tell whether the source was Canada or the US.

They world has moved on since then and its much easier to do that now.

> Too much is traded bought and sold worldwide for this to be a profitable revenge.

Fantasy with china.

> And then there's that Texas thing, If the Chinese were
> to insult US beef, it would go directly to texas, because
> that is what Bush was trying to get them to buy.

Bush is completely irrelevant.

> And that would be political anathema.

How odd that the chinese didnt give a damn about that in the past.

> Unless of course it was utterly true, in which case, good god
> get that stuff out of the market. I don't think it is true though.

> In the meantime, what I find more worrisome is the evidence that more
> and more deer are getting a prion disease called Wasting disease.
> That's very scary too

Nope, its no big deal to not eat them anymore.


>>> here's some more stuff that is useful in understanding "The Life of Pi"

Nope. That article misses the point completely about what
has worked fine with previous problems with mad cow.