R-CALF, NCBA split on Argentina FMD ban

摘要

Thanks to a rivalry worthy of the finger-snapping street fights between the Sharks and the Jets in West Side Story, it is rare that R-CALF and the National Cattleman's Beef Association share the same opinion. Whether to allow beef and pork products to be imported from Argentina is no different. On July 16, NCBA released a statement urging the U.S. Senate to vote "no" on the Foot and Mouth Disease Prevention Act, an amendment introduced by Sen. Tim Johnson (D- S.D.) that would ban the import of all livestock from Argentina until the USDA is certain that nation is free ofFMD, a highly contagious infection found in cloven-hoofed animals.