BSE Estimate for US

Sunday, April 30. 2006

USDA RELEASES BSE PREVALENCE ESTIMATE FOR U.S.

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced USDA's estimate of the prevalence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States.

"Our enhanced BSE surveillance program has been an enormous undertaking, but well worth the effort," said Johanns. "We can now say, based on science, that the prevalence of BSE in the United States is extraordinarily low. The testing and analysis reinforce our confidence in the health of the U.S. cattle herd, while our interlocking safeguards, including the removal of specified risk materials and the feed ban, protect animal and human health."

Four to seven animals is all they figure have BSE in the US. That's really good news. These statistical analysis always seem a little like witchcraft to me but i know most of the time they are valid.

The bigger question this brings up is, if the prevalence of BSE is so low in the US, why do we need the national Animal Identification System (NAIS) to track all animals? The original justification was the BSE crisis. If there is no BSE crisis, why track all the animals? I will tell you, to benefit the big corporations at the expense of the producers in this country. That's all NAIS is about. Animal health is not the driving force, it is the lie being used by the USDA/meat packers to drive this agenda.

An ear tag never stopped a disease, it's just used to feed bologna to the people of the US.

Posted by Sarpy Sam in NAIS at 02:35 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think the thing that gets me is that the USDA will bring in diseased animals from countries that may or may not have NAIS, but we here in the US are supposed to go through the expense of it. We should hire Sparks Company to do a phony research on the cost of NAIS like the opponents of COOL did, but the only problem is that we don't have the deep pockets of those people. Go figure.

#1 Mike on 2006-05-02 19:38 (Reply)

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