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From a public health perspective, it seems almost irrelevant where that one infected cow in Washington came from. Canada and the U.S. have a fully integrated cattle industry across an open border. Thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which sought to abolish restrictions on trade, North America is one big cattle herd or, for that matter, one big feed store. Mad cow disease is not a Canadian problem; mad cow disease is a North American problem.
We consumers on both sides of the border need to pressure our elected officials to test more cattle, stop the feeding of slaughterhouse waste, manure and blood to livestock and ensure that cows too sick or injured to even walk are euthanized, not eaten.
