R-Calf Continues Trying to Restrict Cattle Imports from Canada
US - A U.S. appeals court will hear arguments next month in the latest bid by a persistent American ranchers group to restrict Canadian cattle imports.
8 June 2007
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The case, pursued for years by the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, or R-CALF, will get yet another airing July 13 in Portland, in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Montana-based group's legal fight was successful in delaying the beef trade after Canada's first mad cow case in May 2003, prolonging a crisis that has cost Canadian ranchers billions.
Since then, trade has resumed in younger cows thought to be at a lower risk for contracting the deadly disease.
But R-CALF is still fighting for a total ban, even as the U.S. government works on a new rule to reopen the border to older cattle and beef products.
Source: AgriMarketing
