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Article: Mad Cow Disease Leads United States, Canada to Recognize Borders.
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- January 18, 2004
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By Michelle Cole, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 18--PICTURE BUTTE, Alberta -- Rick Paskal runs a trio of feedlots situated just 85 miles north of the U.S.-Canada border.
It is here that he takes truckloads of cattle for fattening up on grain and then, when they're ready for slaughter, ships them out. It's a revolving door of the hoofed that has long blended cattle from Canada and the nearby United States -- and routinely sold them back to processors in both countries.
Mad cow disease makes that painfully clear, with U.S. officials persistent in blaming the Washington state mad cow incident on a ...