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Why Does George W. Bush Hate Cattle Ranchers?

Big Media Matt's got his Canadian softwood lumber imports, I've got my premium beef exports.

Tucked in this CBS news summary is another reference to my favorite long-running beef (literally) with the Bush administration:

[National Security Advisor Steven Hadley] dashed any prospect that Japan would lift its ban on American beef imports during Bush's visit ...

Creekstone Farms, which relied on exports to Japan for 80% of its business, has been unable to export any of its premium beef to Japan since the Mad Cow incident in December 2003. Japan requires that any country that has reported a case of the disease test each head of cattle. Despite Creekstone's willingness to pay 100% of the testing costs and the construction of a new testing facility, the USDA still wouldn't allow Creekstone to perform the necessary tests. The department's fig leaf concern was that such tests would raise the suspicion that untested beef would possess Mad Cow, which is, of course, poppycock.

So, why does George W. Bush hate premium beef?

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 01:30 15 November 2005