From Deseret News archives:
Reopen the northern border to cattle
But this crisis the closing of the U.S. border with Canada to live cattle imports has begun to cost important jobs in many small towns, including one in Utah. It also is rapidly reaching the point where it could cause permanent harm to beef processors. The jobs that are disappearing may never come back.
That's big news in towns like Hyrum, where the EA Miller meat packing plant, long a staple of the local economy, has had to lay off 66 workers and cut back production by 20 percent. That's because the plant relied on Canadian cattle for a sizable portion of its business. It's big news, too, in similar towns nationwide. Nebraska's governor recently said his state has lost 8,100 jobs due to the border closure.
The federal government was about to reopen the border when a lawsuit by a Montana-based organization of cattlemen got in the way.
Meanwhile, the economic crisis has proven good for the people who raise and sell cattle, because the price of beef has risen, and bad for virtually everyone else. That prompted Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns to travel to Hyrum last month for a nationwide press conference calling attention to the problem.
We agree with cattlemen that it is absolutely vital for consumers to have full confidence in the beef that enters the market. But the continued border closure is ridiculous for a couple of reasons.
First, it has not prevented Canada from exporting large quantities of boxed beef into the United States. Surely, if there is a health concern, that would extend to all beef that crosses the border, whether it is boxed or live.
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