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Will you be buying imported beef?

Posted by: 2UE | 25 February, 2010 - 12:28 PM
Calls for appropriate labelling of imported beef for consumers

Imported beef products begin flowing into Australia from countries that have suffered mad cow disease from Monday. Tim Webster calls for appropriate labeling of the product so that consumers can make an informed decision.


Blog comments Your Say

  • Quick question so what happens now if every person eats imported meat can you still donate blood as currently you are not allowed to donate in case you have been overseas and eaten the beef so pollies whats changed.....

    Bill Monday 8 March, 2010 - 11:30 AM

  • Mad Cow disease only began when discarded meat scraps were processed into feed for shep and cows.
    I thought that practice was stopped, preventing this from happening again.
    Instead of spreading panic and distrust, why not RESEARCH this issue properly, and check that meat scraps are no longer processed into feed for farm animals.

    Mark

    Mark Tuesday 2 March, 2010 - 11:35 AM

  • Dennis in the US. Why would we waste kangaroo meat in mystery bags (meat pies)? It is far too good for that.

    We don't have to sneek it anywhere. It is readily available and clearly marked in the major supermarkets. I certainly won't be eating imported beef from the US or anywhere else. I'll stick to roo any day. I just hope this dopey Government does not find a country willing to raid its zoos and sell it back to us.

    Greg O Tuesday 2 March, 2010 - 12:14 AM

  • Hay you Aussies,U.S.A Beef is best in the world. At least we don't sneek kangaroo meat for beef like Down unders do.
    And you Rodger Box most of those meat pies contain kangkaoo and iquana.
    BURP..

    Dennis Monday 1 March, 2010 - 1:39 PM

  • Couldn't trust this government to organise a chook raffle let alone protect us from BSE. Just look at the risk assessments that never existed for the roof batts. Regardless risk assessments are only human and no guarantee. No such protocols yet, so no beef products for me, plenty of alternatives and this will only affect our aussie beef producers.
    The meat pie might say Aussie made, but existing labelling could mean the pastry was made and assembled here, but now the meat can be from anywhere. They might guarantee only muscle being imported, but it’s cut on an overseas abattoir’s slab, the same slab and equipment that might carry BSE. How is the Food Authority in Australia going to control that?
    Competition? Our farmers get $1.5 per kilo, will they have to drop their price? I choose to support our farmers, not those overseas.
    We have exceptional beef, why lower standards now? This could bring Australia to its knees.

    Robyn Parkinson Sunday 28 February, 2010 - 10:33 PM

  • In Australia back as far as 1968, VitaminB1 was used successfully for the treatment of a brain wasting disease Polioencephalomalacia - PEM -in livestock.
    Research has found that the symptoms of PEM, - give or take a few and put into human terms - are similar to CJD.
    I wonder if the doctors know this. If not - why not?
    Similar symptoms - why not similar treatment?
    PEM is supposed to be caused from lack of VB1, but research has found other causes.

    Elaine Sunday 28 February, 2010 - 10:26 PM

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