Beef: a new certification

"World-class" beef.

For the most part I eat only OCIA "certified organic" beef. This means that the meat is hormone and drug free. It also means that the beef is most likely free of Mad Cow disease. No certified animal has ever been shown to be BSE (ie Mad Cow) positive. And it is unlikely that certified organic beef would be BSE positive especially if one believes that the disease is feed-originated as cheap, dubious feeds are not allowed under any organic certification standard.

The feds have so far poured well over 2 billion dollars into income support schemes ... and nothing addressing beef problems has been accomplished. Rather than throwing good money after bad, various levels of government should work to resolve the problem.

I would like to see the next 2 billion dollars go (as grant and subsidy) toward "new" infrastructure development built for the purpose of producing:
A) "certified organic" beef;
B) 100% BSE-tested beef;
C) hormone- & drug- free beef;
D) any combination of the above.

Then we will be able to export our beef to Japan and/or Europe. We can't currently export to Japan because we don't 100% test. We can't currently export to Europe because our beef is saturated with drugs and hormones. "World-class ABC" would be the world's highest and most exportable certification.

Problem solved.