The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a notice to Canadian consumers about reports of outbreaks of pseudorabies in commercial swine in the United States.
Pseudorabies, also known as Aujesky’s disease, doesn’t sicken humans but it can infect animals like cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, mink, foxes, raccoons and rats, causing fatal rabies-like signs and severe itching, according to the CFIA.
The CFIA states that shipments that have already been certified “will be permitted to enter Canada.”
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The United States Department of Agriculture will not be issuing export certificates for the following products until further notice:
- uncooked edible pork snouts
- uncooked edible porcine blood
- raw inedible porcine by-products (with the exception of raw pig ears, which are still allowed)
- untreated inedible porcine blood products
- raw porcine manure
Other porcine commodities, such as edible pork meat and raw pet food containing pork products, do not pose a risk of transmission of this disease and these imports may continue as usual.
Mexico suspended imports of some American pork products due to pseudorabies concerns on Thursday.
The USDA reported on April 30 that routine testing detected pseudorabies virus antibodies in five boars at a commercial facility in Iowa, which came from an outdoor facility in Texas.
It was the first known U.S. case of pseudorabies in commercial swine since 2004.
CFIA will kill any Innocent and Healthy Farm Animals as they did so Horrifically at the B.C Ostrich Farm last November without testing any of them first, in a Cruel Vindictive manner to get even with the Farmers who fought over a year to have them saved after testing them several times with no viruses. The whole world watched that very Heartbreaking View! The more they kill off Farm Animals, they leave the Farmers Bankrupt and Destitute to the point of some Farmers commiting Suicide! If 10 Farm Animals are sick and Infected out of 300 Healthy ones, they’ll kill off the whole amount! Bigger Farm Industries are thought to be together with the Liberals to make this happen. Industrial Farming vs Small Farming is money for both culprits!.
Anonymous at 2:59…
Pigs are Clean and very Intelligent, unlike Dirty Smelly subhumans as ‘YOU’ are!! CRUEL F*K*R!
Too many rules, regulations, high feed costs and taxes in Canada for small and medium pork producers to operate. We have some large corporate farms but they don’t have the production volume for Canadian consumer demands. So Canada imports pork from the USA, Denmark, Germany and Brazil.
Why are we importing pork from anywhere? We have enough Canadian. I asked Costco Canada that same question; no answer.
Why would anyone buy American pigs? We have our own clean ones in Canada
They are the filthiest asholes on the planet