MrBishop
Well-Known Member
Looks like we're pretty fucked now, eh?
Mad Cow meant that we couldn't sell beef to the USA and Europe... Mexico still bought our beef though. Now the USA is buying the beef aimed at Mexico, before it gets there and reselling it as American beef to Canada. Local beef-sellers are raising their prices to compete with the lost revenue (no sales to the USA remember?)...and what that's brought us is that th price of beef is so expensive that you can't go into Subways and buy a Roast-beef sub. Lots of reestaurants are either taking beef products off their menus or pricing it out of whack with reality.
Now...the Chinese HV7 Avian Influenza (Chicken flu) has crossed the ocean and found itself (or rather, a weaker variation thereof) in British Columbia, Canada.
So...what does the world do?
This
Borders begin to close to Cdn poultry after H7 avian influenza found in B.C.
Fri Feb 20, 9:59 AM ET
[size=-1]VANCOUVER (CP) - Borders started to close Friday to Canadian poultry exports after avian influenza was found in chickens on a B.C. farm. [/size]
Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong all announced restrictions after it was revealed Thursday that a type of avian influenza found at American poultry farms last week had now also been found at a Vancouver-area hatchery. The outbreak has been caused by an H7 influenza subtype, which is not the strain of avian flu ravaging parts of Asia. Health experts say the B.C. case poses very little risk to human health, but chicken farmers were worried a scared public could stop buying poultry and deliver a serious blow to the industry.
Mad Cow meant that we couldn't sell beef to the USA and Europe... Mexico still bought our beef though. Now the USA is buying the beef aimed at Mexico, before it gets there and reselling it as American beef to Canada. Local beef-sellers are raising their prices to compete with the lost revenue (no sales to the USA remember?)...and what that's brought us is that th price of beef is so expensive that you can't go into Subways and buy a Roast-beef sub. Lots of reestaurants are either taking beef products off their menus or pricing it out of whack with reality.
Now...the Chinese HV7 Avian Influenza (Chicken flu) has crossed the ocean and found itself (or rather, a weaker variation thereof) in British Columbia, Canada.
So...what does the world do?
This
Borders begin to close to Cdn poultry after H7 avian influenza found in B.C.
Fri Feb 20, 9:59 AM ET
[size=-1]VANCOUVER (CP) - Borders started to close Friday to Canadian poultry exports after avian influenza was found in chickens on a B.C. farm. [/size]
Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong all announced restrictions after it was revealed Thursday that a type of avian influenza found at American poultry farms last week had now also been found at a Vancouver-area hatchery. The outbreak has been caused by an H7 influenza subtype, which is not the strain of avian flu ravaging parts of Asia. Health experts say the B.C. case poses very little risk to human health, but chicken farmers were worried a scared public could stop buying poultry and deliver a serious blow to the industry.
