mrken30

US set to import British beef and lamb for the first time in 20 years

It doesn't mention anything about bacon

Guindalf

I'm pretty sure you're joking, but the article specifically says "red meat", which has no bearing on the importation of pork products.

mrken30

Yes , I was joking. I wonder if the let up on meat products means that there is potential that I will be able to donate blood again in my lifetime.

scot47

BSE Burgers again ! Yummy !

Pulaski

I wonder the same thing some times, but the last I read, just a year or two back, is that despite there now being negligible vCJD cases, we're potential carriers of an as-yet unidentifiable agent that can transmit the disease through blood donations.

mrken30

Washington State in the US had BSE. My wifes , friends dad died from vJD a few years back. He had never been to England or had a blood transfusion.

Pulaski

The connection between vCJD and BSE is not certain. There was a life-long vegetarian in the UK died of vCJD, as did a young girl who was born after the great cattle cull so pretty much couldn't have eaten infected beef.

But whichever way you look at it, vCJD is an extremely rare disease, and being a victim of an ISIS inspired spree killer is a much greater risk, .... even though the risk of that is already negligible.

dc koop

I had a dozen pork pies confiscated at LAX when I arrived in LA after a a trip back home.

I told the customs guy that pork had nothing to do with mad cow disease. Didn't make any difference. Into the basket they went

Pulaski

Pork is not mad cow, it's foot and mouth.

Steve_

What this tells me is the UK govt. is really desperate to show any sort of good news they can about Brexit. The guy from the NFU cracked me up:

OMG, (a) does he realize that the west of the US was essentially colonized to raise cattle and (b) what has history or language got to do with eating beef?

Steve_

Meat imports aren't allowed by private individuals, except from Canada and Mexico, period. This is why I am so desperate for CETA to come into force ASAP. So at least in Canada we can get the stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with Canadian meat but the pork pies here are a bit rum. And I wouldn't mind some Shippham's spread. The salmon one is legal but not the chicken or beef.

kimilseung

Well you cant blame for for thinking that the pigs were fed cows now can you?

dc koop

If the customs official had been capable of reaching that level of logic I could have given him some credit. He was just a bloody minded bureaucrat however who thought that anything foreign with animal products in it had to be the bringer of some kind of dreadful plague

Pulaski

Haven't you heard of foot and mouth disease?

steveq

Sure, but cooked, cured meat ?