August 11, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Headline of the Week
Canada's Chretien Urged to Lead Mad Cow Mission.
The article does not take a position on whether or not the batty bovines are likely to be cured of their disease once they accept Jesus as their personal savior.
Posted by Jane Galt at August 11, 2003 6:01 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksDoes the Angus Dei have anything to do with this?
Live cow imports from Canada? Can we assume that their agriculture department is more efficient than their health care was with SARS?
Maybe if Jean Chretien personally eats the brain of one cow out of every herd. Although if he does get infected, it might take a long, long time to notice any difference.
Here I thought he was preaching the Gospel of Pierre Trudeau, who died but lives in the hearts of Liberals to this day. Only the State can set these cows free.
It's not mocking Christians; it's a pun. No disrespect intended. Whether or not you believe that people can be healed through faith, cows clearly lack the volition to be born again, and thus could not be successfully healed by a conversion that could not take place.
Mark,
Canada's ONE case of BSE actualy was a cow that came from the USA. Canada's testing is 10 times BETTER than the USA's. Animal by- product in feed has been BANNED since 1997, while it is still allowed in the USA.
As far a SARS goes, it was just allot of media hype. If it happened in the USA, the outbreak would have been far worse.
Things like west nile, and your new monkey face disease, or whatever its called, seem to always stem from the USA. So, before pointing your finger at other countries, look in your own backyard.
Oh, and I agree, chretien is an idiot, reminds me of bill clinton, gray davis, Howard dean...
Roy,
I wasn't trying to insult Canada, just it's government. And I'll insult our government anytime, so don't feel singled out. All in all, you've got a great country but a lousy government - rather like the USA, only you seem to let them foul up even more things.
Like every other nation with air connections to Hong Kong & Singapore, we had SARS cases in US hospitals. But they stayed in the hospitals. We didn't have government doctors treating the carriers with a shot of antibiotic and sending them home.
IIRC, we had over a hundred cases overall, and no deaths. For the math-challenged, that's a death rate of 0%, not the 10% or higher that was being trumpeted in the media. Toronto had two dubious distinctions, the most deaths of any first-world country (unless Singapore is a first-world country?), and the only non-Asian locale to garner a WHO travel advisory. Maybe our overpriced unsocialized medical care works a little better, eh? And somehow the uninsured poor were taken care of too...
To get back to mad cows, it does sound like isolation and massive cow-killing has worked, but I can also see why the USDA wants to wait a bit longer. I don't think they'd be moving faster if the lone case had been in Texas. Not that I consider the USDA any model for governmental programs, mind you.
Maybe your inspectors did catch something that slipped past our inspectors, but if it started here, there's been time by now for the herd-mates to have developed cases that are blatantly obvious and it hasn't happened. I have no idea of how the Canadian agriculture regulations work. I do hear plenty about other government programs, such as health care that's got Canadian citizens lined up at American clinics and a gun registration program which costs hundreds of times more than was budgeted and can't get the guns registered. I suppose somewhere in all the governmental departments there's got to be one that's well-run, so if you actually have reason to know the ag department is well-run, I'll believe that's the one.
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