Anne Lurie wrote:

Has it occurred to anyone else here in the US that *lumber* is apparently
tracked more accurately than food is????

If I buy a 2x4 at Home Depot, it can apparently be tracked throughout its
whole life -- which seems to be quite simple compared to figuring out this
whole mad cow mess.

LOL, I work in the fish processing industry in Alaska. One of my
co-workers made the crack that someone he knew who dealt with
radioactive material had less paperwork shipping and tracking
radium and plutonium than we have shipping halibut, never mind Lox.

If timber is tracked closer than fish, I don't want to have anything
to do with it.