Many of you probably know this, but it has not been prevalent in major news outlets.  China has banned U.S. beef since 2003.  All of it.  No singling out companies, types of beef, types of cattle.  All U.S. beef is banned.  This action predated the recent China safety concerns by a few years.

Why?  Because the U.S. has discovered three cases of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE) within its borders.  One was in December 2003.  The cow was from Canada which has had scores of cases.  The other two cases were found in old cows, and the BSE type was "atypical".  Atypical BSE has never been found transferrable to humans.

So.  We have 3 BSE cases in beef, and they ban all U.S. beef.

They ship us millions of lead paint covered toys, loads of contaminated and poisonous seafood, melamine contaminated wheat gluten, salmonella contaminated seasonings for health snacks, .... and we still let it all in.

Maybe we just need to ban their products found unsafe. 

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