Canada reports mad cow case. Canada reports its first case of mad cow disease in a decade, in the western province of Alberta. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
Another nail in the coffin of the model of the export model for Food. No matter how well contained, the trust has been lost. In the UK trust in beef has never really come back. Mad Cow and Foot and Mouth in the Uk has lead to a huge acceptance by the mainstream of organic agriculture. As each country moves to surplus or at least sufficiency, it will use any health issue to close its borders. We have seen this in Canada in the case of Wart for Potatoes in PEI, now for Beef in Alberta and using dumping for lumber in BC.
Canada's history and current ag policy has ben to use our large land base to grow food for export. It is a moribund policy that cannot be sustained - it also drives terrible use of the land and water. But i think that the uncertainty of markets will do more to stop it than any environmental argument
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