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Actually, a few years back Canada pulled a 'Japan' on Brazil. They stopped importing Brazilian meat (which was no big deal, but then the US stopped too, which really hurt us) on the grounds that our herds were infected. It turns out that we had in fact had some cases of BSE, but they were limited to livestock imported from the UK just before the outbreak there. This UK livestock was slaughtered and disposed of and never hit the market. Animal protein has never been added to animal feed in Brazil. Canada sent a group of experts/inspectors over to check our herds before they resumed their imports.

When the whole story was over, there was a lot of suspicion in the air about the real, political motives for this.

Renegade, I wonder if your press ran this story over there at the time. Down here it was a major brouhaha. We even had a boycott on Canadian artists in the radio.