Consistency is something that has been completely forgotten. About 2 years ago. livestock farmers of this country were seeing their markets glutted by a wideopen import policy in which billions of pounds of beef were brought into this country. causing ruinously low beef prices and resulting in the loss of more than $170 million to the American farmer. Importing beef to America and breaking the farmers market made about as much sense to me at that time as Importing tens of thousands of Chinese coolies to provide cheap labor and break the laboring mans wage scale. The farmers rightfully rebelled. They loudly called attention to their plight in every way they knew possible. and Congress responded.