[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10101]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



     THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN FARMERS EACH YEAR ARE LOSING THEIR FARMS

  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, thousands of American farmers each year 
are losing their farms. Bankruptcy, unfair imports, estate taxes, 
government regulations, IRS, EPA, you name it. American farmers are 
literally biting the dust. Yet Uncle Sam is allowing imported ground 
beef to cross our borders without even being inspected. It is 
unbelievable. If that is not enough to milk your holstein, the American 
people know more about the origin of their BVDs than their food supply. 
With mad-cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease rampant over in Europe, 
there is not even a country-of-origin label on American food. Beam me 
up.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the fact that mad-cow disease is not a name 
for a rock group.

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