CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
April 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLCANADIAN meat producers have launched a CDN$7 billion class-action suit against Canada's federal government for negligently allowing BSE to devastate the country's cattle industry. The lawsuit claims the government's monitoring system established to prevent BSE from spreading to Canadian herds failed because it lost track of animals it catalogued as being imported from BSE-ridden Britain. The suit also targets Ridley Corp. Ltd., an Australian company that allegedly made cattle feed from imported British cattle, saying that it knew or should have ...
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