R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America “Fighting for the U.S. Cattle
Producer”
Contact: Bill Bullard, CEO
September 4, 2012 Phone: 406-252-2516; e-mail: r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com
* * MEDIA ADVISORY * *
News Conference
What: R-CALF USA, The Made in the USA Foundation and others will hold a
news conference to announce they have jointly filed a lawsuit against the World
Trade Organization (WTO), Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and U.S. Trade
Representative Ron Kirk for usurping U.S. sovereignty by unlawfully acquiescing
to a WTO ruling that found that U.S. Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) violates
international trade laws.
When: 10:30 a.m. MDT, Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Where: Outside U.S. Courthouse, 901 19th St., Denver, Colorado
Who: Joel D. Joseph, Chairman, Made in the USA Foundation
Mike Schultz, Region VI Director and COOL Committee Chairman, R-CALF USA
Other plaintiffs to the lawsuit
Related Event: Question and Answer Interviews
What: The media and other attendees are invited to a Question and Answer
Interview Session where lunch will be served.
When: 11:30 a.m. MDT
Where: Grand Hyatt Hotel,
Mt. Oxford Room – 3rd Floor
1750 Welton St.
Denver, CO
Background: On June 29, 2012, the World Trade Organization (WTO) declared
that the United States Country of Origin Labeling Act unlawfully discriminates
against Canadian and Mexican beef. This event will explain why the WTO decision
should be declared null and void as well as explain the harm to United States’
democracy that has arisen because U.S. officials have failed to protect
America’s sovereign right to fully inform its citizens about where their food is
grown and produced.
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R-CALF USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of
America) is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the
continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle industry. For more
information, visit www.r-calfusa.com or, call 406-252-2516.
Friday, November 18, 2011
country-of-origin labeling law (COOL) violates U.S. obligations under WTO
rules WT/DS384/R WT/DS386/R
Friday, July 6, 2012
cattle from Mexico enter USA illegally, indications they are being sold in
Texas and New Mexico
Monday, September 3, 2012
2012 JAPAN BANS DEER AND ELK MEAT AND ALLOWS SOME BEEF PRODUCTS, what about
TSE prion concerns ?
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
El Salvador lifted all age and product restrictions on USA beef, while
Mexico Meat Export Federation allows some access
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Are USDA assurances on mad cow case 'gross oversimplification'?
SNIP...
What irks many scientists is the USDA’s April 25 statement that the rare
disease is “not generally associated with an animal consuming infected
feed.”
The USDA’s conclusion is a “gross oversimplification,” said Dr. Paul Brown,
one of the world’s experts on this type of disease who retired recently from the
National Institutes of Health.
"(The agency) has no foundation on which to base that statement.”
“We can’t say it’s not feed related,” agreed Dr. Linda Detwiler, an
official with the USDA during the Clinton Administration now at Mississippi
State.
In the May 1 email to me, USDA’s Cole backed off a bit. “No one knows the
origins of atypical cases of BSE,” she said
The argument about feed is critical because if feed is the cause, not a
spontaneous mutation, the California cow could be part of a larger outbreak.
SNIP...
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Final Feed Investigation Summary - California BSE Case - July 2012
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SUMMARY REPORT CALIFORNIA BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY CASE
INVESTIGATION JULY 2012
Summary Report BSE 2012
Executive Summary
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Update from APHIS Regarding Release of the Final Report on the BSE
Epidemiological Investigation
in the url that follows, I have posted
SRM breaches first, as late as 2011.
then
MAD COW FEED BAN BREACHES AND TONNAGES OF MAD COW FEED IN COMMERCE up until
2007, when they ceased posting them.
then,
MAD COW SURVEILLANCE BREACHES.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Update from APHIS Regarding a Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(BSE) in the United States Friday May 18, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
MEATINGPLACE.COM WAVES MAGIC WAND AND EXPECTS THE USDA MAD COW FOLLIES BSE
TO BE GONE
Thursday, June 14, 2012
R-CALF USA Calls USDA Dishonest and Corrupt; Submits Fourth Request for
Extension
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America
Friday, May 25, 2012
R-CALF USDA’s New BSE Rule Eliminates Important Protections Needed to
Prevent BSE Spread
Monday, June 18, 2012
R-CALF Submits Incomplete Comments Under Protest in Bizarre Rulemaking
“Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Importation of Bovines and Bovine Products”
Monday, August 06, 2012
Atypical neuropathological sCJD-MM phenotype with abundant white matter
Kuru-type plaques sparing the cerebellar cortex
Monday, July 23, 2012
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center July 2012
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
NAIS, COOL, FROM FARM TO FORK, MAD COW DISEASE
TSS
