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April/May 2005 HEREFORD AMERICA • 27
R-CALF bought cheap cows in Canada; group’s president says it’s no ‘big deal’
WASHINGTON - Members of R-CALF,
the U.S. ranchers’ group that sued - on
safety grounds - to keep the border closed
to Canadian cattle, bought up cheap cows
in Canada after the ban, the group’s
president, Leo McDonnell, acknowledged.
“I don’t see anything ironic about it,” said
McDonnell, Columbus, Mont. “I didn’t see
it as a big deal.” There’s a couple of them
that have bought and fed cattle up there,
three or four at most,” a figure disputed by a
Canadian feedlot owner who says it’s higher.
Three of those U.S. ranchers have been
significant contributors to R-CALF’s
litigation fund, McDonnell said, an endeavor
focused squarely on keeping the border
shut.
Some in Canada are furious, saying R-
CALF members have exploited a crisis they
helped to create.
“It’s not illegal but their ethics are
terrible,” said an Ontario producer. “I’ve had
enough. I have no use for these guys.”
Rick Paskal, a feedlot owner in Lethbridge,
Alta., said group members “recognized an
opportunity for their own personal economic
gain. “They were absolutely not concerned
about food safety.” A federal judge granted
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R-CALF’s request last week for a delay in
resuming the live cattle trade.
It was supposed to have begun recently
for the first time in nearly two years after
some $7 billion Cdn in losses for Canada’s
industry.
The American protectionist group has
opposed reopening the border since it closed
in May 2003 after Canada’s first case of mad
cow.
R-CALF argues that Canadian cattle are
dangerous to U.S. herds and humans.
“There’s nothing unique about what
we’re doing,” said McDonnell, who noted
that members of pro-trade U.S. ranching
groups have also bought Canadian cattle.
A day after the court ruling in favor of R-
CALF, U.S. senators voted to reject the U.S.
Agriculture Department’s plan to reopen the
border to cattle, a largely symbolic move but
another sign of the intense opposition that’s
been building.
Many legislators and U.S. ranchers have
been much more vocally opposed since the
last two mad cow cases were discovered in
Canada in January. One cow sparked
particular concern because it was born after
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