WIll We Next Have Baby-Food Contaminated With Mad Cow Disease?
WIll We Next Have Baby-Food Contaminated With Mad Cow Disease?
Australian mothers might be feeding their babies baby - food made with with meat contaminated by mad cow disease (BSE), if a proposal by the Labor Government to allow beef imports from affected countries goes ahead.
We have assurances from Simon Crean (formerly a failed ALP Opposition Leader) that strict protocols are in place to prevent that happening, but BSE is only detectable in its advanced stages and remember this is the same crowd that gave us the roof batts fiasco.
One Nation wants 100 per cent protection against imports for our lucrative and healthy beef industry anyway, but if beef is to be imported, and there is the slightest possibility it could be contaminated, One Nation says the answer must be "No." Products that could contain BSE are already surreptitiously allowed into Australia and not a word about it from the Opposition or mainstream media.
To understand this insanity you must realise that in 1975 the Whitlam Government acquiesced in the Lima agreement to shift primary production and manufacturing to the developing world when any excuse appeared. The socialist mentality of Keating's level playing field also means contamination and risk must be evenly distributed across the world. The third key to understanding is that the ALP and their fellow travellers in Treasury and the coalition simply have it in for our farmers.
Has it occurred to them that any beef we import will come from a competitor in the international beef trade, and it would be in their interest to give us infected meat and thereby ruin our reputation?
In recent years we have already had imported Brazilian beef discarded onto a tip because of foot and mouth disease, and according to SBS Dateline of August 3, 2005 on Biosecurity Australia's recommendation, Australia allowed in pork from countries infected with post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome or PMWS that killed 4 million pigs in Europe. Luckily this decision was beaten in the Federal Court where In a damning 100-page judgment,the judge found Biosecurity's risk assessment for pork imports to be "bizarre...unreasonable and unsupported by any fact, scientific evidence or scientific expertise."
In a slip of the tongue on Thursday, Kevin Rudd has already admitted there is risk of BSE in imports by describing it as “neglible”. For “negligible”. In Rudd-speak, read a “measurable” risk.
One Nation calls on the Australian media, unless they have the usual contempt for the people of Australia, to unreservedly expose this latest perfidy by our so-called leaders, just as they exposed the roof batt fiasco..