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After the announcement that Japan would start accepting our great beef product, now Taiwan has also announced that they will start accepting our wonderful product again. This just really strikes me, a cow-calf producer, as great. Of course some people complain. The meatpackers are whining as usual about the increased costs of aging the critters before there acceptable to going over to Japan.

I never have figured out why the meatpacking industry always whines about everything. Here there is a chance to increase their market penetration after losing it and all they can do is whine about it. Don't get me wrong, it's not going to be easy to get the market share back. It appears that Japanese consumers aren't too sure about US beef even after the aggrement. Instead of whining about it though the meatpackers should be looking at the oppurtunity and going after the new market aggressively. A real buisness would look at the situation and see the positive in it but the government backed meat monopoly only can see the negative and will probably appeal to big daddy to help them out. So sad.

If anybody has a right to look at the downside in the opening of these markets to US beef it's the Australians. They increased their market share while we were kept out of the market and while there might eventually be a decline for them they should keep some market share too and maybe we can all prosper.

EAT BEEF!!!

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. An Wang