Mad cow sickens the Japanese

Introduction: if the "9 / 11" terrorist incident in the United States is a man-made disaster, then a mad cow disease in Japan at the same time seems to be a natural disaster, but it has caused the same major shock wave to Japan For more than a month, the Japanese talked about the color change of cattle and kept away from the beef, which made the people in the cattle business suffer a lot The Japanese government has done everything in its power, but the epidemic of mad cow disease is still hard to stop On September 10, the Japanese government received a report that a farmer's beef cattle in Chiba County found neurological symptoms and was suspected of BSE The Japanese government sent the samples to the experienced UK for reexamination, which confirmed that this was the first case of BSE in Asia The news came out and shocked all Japan What vibrates more to the nation is the gaffe of the Japanese government After the first case of mad cow disease, the Japanese government announced that the sick cattle had been incinerated, and the beef would not enter the market, hoping that the society could rest assured However, the media soon revealed that the cattle had not been burned at all, but instead had been processed into meat and bone meal feed to the market When the news came out, people lost their trust in the government An official from Japan's Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries explained that no investigation had been made at the time of the news release, but that it was assumed that incineration should be carried out More investigations have found that, shortly after the discovery of BSE cases in Europe a few years ago, many countries have stopped feeding meat and bone meal feeds of infectious sources to cattle However, the Japanese Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries has only issued a blank article, which has not been implemented Not only many farmers do not know the government's regulations, but many foragers still purchase meat and bone meal feeds from Europe It can be seen that this natural disaster also contains the element of man-made disaster At this time, the price of beef in the market began to fall sharply, and the price of farmers' marketing fell to half of the daily price, and the retail price also fell to 60% of the daily price Some farmers, who are crying, simply stop raising cattle Japan's barbecue shops, McDonald's and other restaurants were forced to sell at reduced prices Even so, some restaurants were hard to survive and were forced to close In order to restore the trust of the people, the Japanese government tried its best First of all, it announced that the circulation of meat and bone meal feed would be stopped, which would be destroyed by the government after acquisition Secondly, it would purchase and dispose all the cattle of the thousand leaf farmers who had been in trouble, and would track and investigate the cattle of a certain pasture in Hokkaido, the source of the goods Politicians began to take the lead in eating beef Hundreds of congressmen held a "steak luncheon", especially the Minister of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries and the Minister of health, labor and welfare Every time they visited, they had to eat beef in front of the television camera They became beef salesmen One wave is not flat and another is rising On October 11, there was another suspicion of mad cow disease beef in Tokyo wholesale market After several inspections, the suspicion was ruled out, but the Japanese beef market completely collapsed The government decided to quarantine all the beef on the market head by head, and stop all market wholesale before supporting the equipment This decision is too much of a correction Mad cow disease (BSE) is a disease found in adult cattle Therefore, the EU requires that cattle over 30 months should be quarantined, cattle over 24 months should only be inspected for abnormal symptoms, and other calves need not be inspected Japan once planned to apply this standard, but several successive cases of mad cow disease caused serious panic in the society The government finally decided to eliminate the uneasiness of consumers, and will check all cattle slaughtered and listed head by head In addition to imported beef, about 1.3 million raw cattle are slaughtered every year in Japan, so the quarantine work can be imagined On October 18, the quarantine offices set up in 117 slaughterhouses of raw cattle in Japan began to operate in an all-round way The government stipulated that qualified beef can enter the market only after being stamped If any problem is found in the quarantine, it will be announced to the public after being checked and confirmed by experts During this period, all suspicious beef will be sealed On the same day, Japan's minister of health and welfare issued a "Declaration of safety" He said that Japan is the most strictly inspected country in the world to ensure that dangerous beef does not flow to society He hoped that people could eat meat at ease and sell it boldly But on the first day of quarantine, suspicious cases were found in Tokyo, Kobe, Hokkaido and other places Although the danger was eliminated through two inspections, the farce still made people uneasy The government has spent a lot of money on mad cow disease countermeasures, and has recently allocated 50 billion yen for mad cow disease countermeasures and anti-terrorism countermeasures Tokyo and other local governments have also provided low interest loans to farmers Although the beef distribution market resumed its overall operation, the wholesale volume of beef in Tokyo, Japan's largest meat wholesale market, was less than half of that in normal days on the 18th and 19th 13000 tons of unsealed beef slaughtered 18 days ago and sealed up in cold storage has become a burden for the government It seems that the recent Japanese beef market is far away from the "bull market" (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: