Don't be fooled by a government promise that it will investigate whether BSE affected meat could ever turn up in Australia. BSE is better known as Mad Cow Disease. And it kills people.
It's probably already here. And it can beat the quarantine tests that are going to be done now-and in the future.
There's only one way to be sure: don't allow beef and beef products to come into Australia from any country that has had an outbreak of Mad Cow Disease!
CLASS WAR ON THE CATTLE STATIONS: WHAT THEY SAID A FEW WEEKS AGO: FREE TRADE CUCKOO POLITICS GRIPS VERY RICH CATTLEMEN!
The biggest producers of beef in Australia want free trade so they can keep their export market. That means they don't mind if foreign beef enters our market. If foreigners can do that, then they won't keep our beef out of their countries. Crazy stuff. The Cattle Council said last week:
"The old Bse policy was not consistent with international rules. Under the previous rule banning sale of beef from countries that have had a case of BSE, if Australia were to be affected by an unlikely single case of BSE the results would be devastating for the sector and the economy. All beef could be removed from all domestic shelves at enormous expense, crippling the industry, and foreign markets could reciprocate by locking us out without scientific justification. Cattle Council found this arrangement totally unacceptable. These export markets were at serious risk if we did not change our BSE policy and we ever got a trade disruptive disease. Our markets could have shut us out and we would have no retaliation."
Why allow imported beef anyway ? The amount allowed in will grow over time. It will destroy smaller Aussie producers. But that won't worry the biggest cattlemen because they produce for export. Simple! Free trade can kill you and it will destroy thousands of Aussie graziers and farmers on the way. It will undermine regional cities and towns and destroy thousands of jobs! If regional Australia falls apart and people die from contaminated beef -that's a high price for free trade!
FREE TRADE CAN KILL YOU! SAY NO TO IMPORTED BEEF!
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