Gary Karp, vice president, told ID Report that the most significant detrimental influence would be on beef exporters. "Countries that import products from us have now closed their borders to us. That will have a dampening effect on the product," Karp said.
Likening the discovery of the Mad Cow-afflicted cow in Washington State to “an incident of an extremely, extremely rare disease,” Karp noted that educational efforts of the USDA
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