Re: OT - [rant alert] This is the sickest thing ever!

I suppose someone just thought they were doing their job - didn't want their
a** on the line if someone got sick.  But geez, just put more hours in on
testing and release the food when it tests ok.  Why destroy it?

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT - [rant alert] This is the sickest thing ever!


> Just when I thought the government couldn't possibly get any more
> stupid.......
>  I hope they barbeque whoever is responsible for this debacle.
>
>  On 9/20/05, Eva Tompkins LaBonte <evatesq@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
>
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16147117&method=full&siteid=94762&he
> > adline=up-in-flames--name_page.html
> > It didn't work? Ok, I'll paste it:
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES
> > Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be
BURNED
> > by Americans
> > From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York
> >
> > HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving
> > Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.
> >
> > US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.
> >
> > Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those
> > eaten
> > by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human
> > consumption.
> >
> > And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for
> > incineration.
> >
> > One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening
> > senselessness"
> > and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood".
> >
> > The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a
huge
> > warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already
> > left to be distributed.
> >
> > Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas,
to
> > dump it at an FDA incineration plant.
> >
> > The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000
operational
> > ration packs had been shipped to the US.
> >
> > But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded
the
> > shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.
> >
> > The aid worker, who would not be named, said: "This is the most
appalling
> > act of sickening senselessness while people starve.
> >
> > "The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as
> > unfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato
approved
> > rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq.
> >
> > "Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations,
yet
> > the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke because
of
> > FDA red tape madness."
> >
> > The worker added: "There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock
soon -
> > of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest nation
> > couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery and lets Americans starve while
> > they arrogantly observe petty regulations.
> >
> > "Everyone is revolted by the chaotic shambles the US is making of this
> > crisis. Guys from Unicef are walking around spitting blood.
> >
> > "This is utter madness. People have worked their socks off to get food
> > into
> > the region.
> >
> > "It is perfectly good Nato approved food of the type British servicemen
> > have. Yet the FDA are saying that because there is a meat content and it
> > has
> > come from Britain it must be destroyed.
> >
> > "If they are trying to argue there is a BSE reason then that is
> > ludicrously
> > out of date. There is more BSE in the States than there ever was in
> > Britain
> > and UK meat has been safe for years."
> >
> > The Ministry of Defence said: "We understand there was a glitch and
these
> > packs have been impounded by the US Department of Agriculture under
> > regulations relating to the import and export of meat.
> >
> > "The situation is changing all the time and at our last meeting on
Friday
> > we
> > were told progress was being made in relation to the release of these
> > packs.
> > The Americans certainly haven't indicated to us that there are any more
> > problems and they haven't asked us to take them back."
> >
> > Food from Spain and Italy is also being held because it fails to meet US
> > standards and has been judged unfit for human consumption.
> >
> > And Israeli relief agencies are furious that thousands of gallons of
pear
> > juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit.
> >
> > The FDA said: "We did inspect some MREs (meals ready to eat) on
September
> > 13. They are the only MREs we looked at. There were 70 huge pallets of
> > vegetarian MREs.
> >
> > "They were from a foreign nation. We inspected them and then released
them
> > for distribution."
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > On 9/20/05, David Franzman <dfranzma@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I got page can not be displayed
> > >
> > > David
> > > http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Eva Tompkins LaBonte" <evatesq@gmail.com>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:51 PM
> > > Subject: [CHAT] OT - [rant alert] This is the sickest thing ever!
> > >
> > >
> > > > If our country is not the most hated around the world already, it is
> > > now.
> > > > This is just freaking wrong and stupid.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16147117&method=full&siteid=94762&he
> > > > adline=up-in-flames--name_page.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Eva
> > > > Long Island, NY
> > > > Zone 6/7
> > > >
> > > > Honor our dead. Demand the truth.
> > > > http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
> > > > http://www.downingstreetmemo.org/
> > > >
> > >
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