(CN) BSE-free beef selling well

[Guest guest]

While European countries are haunted by the spectre of mad cow disease, the

Chinese meat industry is bullish due to expectations that the country will

export more beef and cattle this year.

 

The fact that China has not detected a single case of bovine spongiform

encephalophathy (BSE) is beefing up the world's confidence in Chinese cattle and

beef products, Jia Youling, director of the Animal Production and Health Bureau,

said yesterday.

 

Jia's optimism, based on the " Risk Analysis and Assessment of BSE in China, "

which reports the findings of a year-long investigation conducted by the

National BSE Test Centre, is apparently supported by domestic meat sales

compared to the performance of foreign exporters.

 

Zhang Tong, a division director of the Zhongmu Great Hua'an Meat Product Corp -

the largest meat wholesaler in China - told China Daily that the company has so

far this year clinched orders to export 7,000 tons of beef to the Middle East.

 

" The fact that China is free of the illness is soothing news for both foreign

and Chinese meat dealers, " said Zhang. " Many overseas business people,

especially those in Middle Eastern countries, have offered to increase their

orders from China. "

 

In the past several years, China has only exported 5,000 tons of beef per annum,

according to Wang Changjiang, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture.

 

Mad cow disease, or BSE, has been found in herds in Europe, igniting worries

that people might contract the human version of the fatal disease from eating or

using products made from infected cattle, Wang said.

 

Israel Wogrer, of the Choger Trade and Marketing Co, a major beef trader in

Israel, said Israel will expand its imports of Chinese beef, because he said the

products, now cleared of BSE, are " top quality. "

 

" We would like to import 500 tons of beef a month from China, " said Wogrer, who

is currently making deals in China.

 

In Beijing, agricultural officials are expecting the city will export more

cattle this year.

 

The capital exported more than 10,000 head of live cattle in 2000, jumping 114

per cent from the previous year, according to Zhang Tongzhu, director of the

Beijing Agricultural Commission.

 

 

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02/17/2001

Author: ZHAO HUANXIN, China Daily staff

Copyright© by China Daily

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/

[Guest guest]

Sooo, detecting BSE amongst tens of thousands of animals has become a 100%

accurate and exact science? Amazing, how people would rather risk their

lives than change their cruel eating habits.

Chris Kelly

 

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" Dr John Wedderburn " <john

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Friday, February 16, 2001 9:31 PM

(CN) BSE-free beef selling well

 

 

While European countries are haunted by the spectre of mad cow disease, the

Chinese meat industry is bullish due to expectations that the country will

export more beef and cattle this year.

 

The fact that China has not detected a single case of bovine spongiform

encephalophathy (BSE) is beefing up the world's confidence in Chinese cattle

and beef products, Jia Youling, director of the Animal Production and Health

Bureau, said yesterday.

 

Jia's optimism, based on the " Risk Analysis and Assessment of BSE in China, "

which reports the findings of a year-long investigation conducted by the

National BSE Test Centre, is apparently supported by domestic meat sales

compared to the performance of foreign exporters.

 

Zhang Tong, a division director of the Zhongmu Great Hua'an Meat Product

Corp - the largest meat wholesaler in China - told China Daily that the

company has so far this year clinched orders to export 7,000 tons of beef to

the Middle East.

 

" The fact that China is free of the illness is soothing news for both

foreign and Chinese meat dealers, " said Zhang. " Many overseas business

people, especially those in Middle Eastern countries, have offered to

increase their orders from China. "

 

In the past several years, China has only exported 5,000 tons of beef per

annum, according to Wang Changjiang, an official with the Ministry of

Agriculture.

 

Mad cow disease, or BSE, has been found in herds in Europe, igniting worries

that people might contract the human version of the fatal disease from

eating or using products made from infected cattle, Wang said.

 

Israel Wogrer, of the Choger Trade and Marketing Co, a major beef trader in

Israel, said Israel will expand its imports of Chinese beef, because he said

the products, now cleared of BSE, are " top quality. "

 

" We would like to import 500 tons of beef a month from China, " said Wogrer,

who is currently making deals in China.

 

In Beijing, agricultural officials are expecting the city will export more

cattle this year.

 

The capital exported more than 10,000 head of live cattle in 2000, jumping

114 per cent from the previous year, according to Zhang Tongzhu, director of

the Beijing Agricultural Commission.

 

 

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02/17/2001

Author: ZHAO HUANXIN, China Daily staff

Copyright© by China Daily

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Chris Kelly wrote:

> Sooo, detecting BSE amongst tens of thousands of animals has become a 100%

> accurate and exact science? Amazing, how people would rather risk their

> lives than change their cruel eating habits.

 

Yes, the British government tried to cover up the issue until it exploded in

their faces; then the French and the German governments; and now the rest of the

world - including USA, China, etc. Where there is money to be made, they are

quite happy to equate inadequate testing methods with positive proof of being

disease free.

The Chinese authorities played the same kind of game during the chicken flu

scare in Hong Kong. It was pretty obvious that the chicken flu had originated

in Southern China and spread to Hong Kong. But the Guangdong authorities

insisted that their tests were negative and that therefore the outbreak must

have started in Hong Kong and be confined there. In fact, the only difference

was that Hong Kong was technogically advanced enough to detect the outbreak and

honest enough to have admitted it. In the meantime while Hong Kong chicken

farmers went out of business, the Guangdong farmers made a lot of money.

This kind of fraud seems to be commonplace amongst governments. Governments of

all varieties dance to the tune of the businessmen who fund them.

John.