David Goldstein: U.S. Should Ban Chinese Protein Imports (HuffingtonPost) Back in 2003, when Mad Cow Disease was discovered in a single, 4-year-old Holstein cow on a diary farm in Mabton, WA , China was quick to react, banning all imports of U.S. beef , a move that cost U.S. ranchers $119 million a year in lost sales. To this day, China has yet to fully lift its ban. And yet faced with a massive, and apparently intentional contamination of imported Chinese ... [News Source]