Danger

You see everything has to do with the precious USDA stamp of approval on the meat. If it is slaughtered in Canada it doesn't get this stamp, the meat packing industry did try to get it approved for use in Canada on Canadian meat at on time but failed, but if a cheaper Canadian cow is brought into the US and slaughtered it gets a USDA inspection stamp on it and it is more valuable. See everybody thinks that the USDA stamp select, choice or whatever means that it is an American product but that is not what it means. It could be a cow from anywhere in the world, as long as it gets butchered in the US it gets the stamp. Why do you think the Beef Industry is pushing for Country Of Origin Labeling. To differentiate our quality beef from other inferior products.

One other thing about this precious USDA stamp. You would since it is a stamp from a federal government department it would be a federal employee inspecting the meat. Wrong answer. The meat packers pay the inspectors so who do the inspectors listen to? You got it. They are not there inspecting the meat for the safety of consumers, just to push more meat with the seal out the door to the consumers for the meat packer.

These are reasons the responsible cattle producers of this country through R-calf are trying to take back the system from the meat packers to protect the consumers of the country.

"Danger! What danger do you foresee?"
Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if we could define it," said he.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

UPDATE: The Gazette opinion piece could be extended to the meat packing industry if you ask me. Oh excuse me, thats been done for the meat packing industry with the Packers and Stockyards act, the government just doesn't enforce the law as written. They just let the packers do anything they want.