monday

WELP WE HAD AN INTERESTING WEEKEND WE WENT TO TOWN TO SEE THE KIDS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY THYE CAME TO SEE US ALONG WITH OUR GOOD SON, HE INSTALLED THE NEW CARDS TO OUR TVS FOR THE SAT DISH BOXES. THEY SENT US UPDATES FOR THEM DUE TO SON SAYS SOMEONE HACKED INTO THE SAT SIGNALS SO THEY HAVE TO CHANGE THE INFO EVERY SO OFTEN WE NOW HAVE CARDS IN OUR EMPTY SLOTS ON THE RECEIVERS.



AT ANY RATE WE ARE STILL UP TO DATE. WE WENT TO BREAKFAST THEN I FIXED A BUNCH OF SNACKS FOR THE KIDS WHICH THYE ATE UP PRETTY WELL.

IM PLANNING ON FIXING A VEGGIE TAMALE PIE AS I WENT TO THE STIORE AND DISCOVERED THAT THE BEEF LABELED ITSELF AS HAVING BEEN PUT TOGETHER IN CANADA MEXICO AMND THE US WELL THAT DOES IT IM NOT EATING THAT STUFF ANY MORE CANADA HAS MAD COWS AND MEXICO HAS GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT SO I GUESS WE WILL VEGETATE PRETTY MUCH ILL STILL ROAST LOCAL CHICKENS BUT THE REST OF THAT STUFF... OOF.

WE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM IN CALIF WE HAD LOCALLY GROWN AND KILLED BEEF THERE AND IT WAS TASTY THE ,MEAT HERE HAS FUNNY TASTES TO IT. AT ANY RATE, MY WHOLE WORLD IS CHNGED NOW MY COOKIGN WILL ALSO CHANGE AND STRANGELY ENOUGH I FOUND THE BEEF AT TRADER JOES HAD THE SAME WARNING ON IT.

WHAT IS GOIGN ON? WHERE ARE OUR HOME GROWN COWS BEING SENT TO?

IF ANYONE HAS AN ANSWER LET ME KNOW AND IM GONNA RESEARCH IT ONLONE AS WELL.





HERE YOU GO:

Mexico and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are negotiating a trade agreement that would presumably pave the way for the export of U.S. breeding stock, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
The announcement comes on the heels of a trade agreement last week that includes breeding stock between Mexico and Canada.
The action prompted Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples to block some Canadian cattle from passing through the state’s export facilities and into Mexico.
"It came as quite a shock to learn that Mexico had come to an agreement with Canada," Staples said. "It was egregious to me that could occur and Texas producers not have the same opportunity."
Texas Department of Agriculture learned of the trade agreement after a Canadian producer contacted the El Paso export facility about reserving pen space.
Staples ordered the state’s five export facilities, including Brownsville’s, to immediately stop specific Canadian cattle from entering Mexico, and asked that other border states follow suit.
Arizona and New Mexico issued similar bans later in the week.
Staples described the Mexico-Canada trade agreement political maneuvering.
"Its not based on anything scientific," he said. "It left U.S. and Texas producers out in the cold."
The USDA has not release specifics of the trade talks with Mexico, but did say that negotiations are on-going, according to USDA Spokesperson Rachel Iadicicco.
The Texas Commissioner applauded the move, adding that he hoped the agreement would be broader in scope than the Canadian trade pact.
Under the current trade parameters, Canada and the U.S. aren’t allowed to export breeding stock into Mexico, only dairy heifers under the age of 24 months.
In 2003, the first incident in the U.S. of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, was reported in a Canadian cow in Washington state.