>From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: WAY OT, but not inflamatory: Roast Beef Sandwich >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:26:19 +0100 > >so much for not inflammatory! > >There are, as usual, several agendas going on. The USA tries to use >the WTO to force Europeans to take all their crap. Europe is about >standards, including stuff like food contents, and the standards for >Europe do not include a lot of the crap that the US food conglomerates >feed to you unfortunates. Perhaps there is some protectionism going >on, but the USA is really not in any position to point the finger at >others in that regard. > >But it is certainly true that American meat tends to be more stuffed >full of that sort of crap than ours - the figures are in the public >domain. I have personally seen the effects of this on a friend of mine >who came back from a year in the USA considerably hairier ('down >South') than she was before she left! > >The important thing though is consumer education and awareness and >forcing the producers and retailers to label things correctly and >openly. Standards have improved enormously over here in recent years, >and more and more crap is being removed from our food all the time. >I've been buying organic food since the early 1980s - you used to have >to struggle to get it, going to out-of-the-way shops run by beardies >and hippies, and paying a real premium price for it. Nowadays it is >readily available on every high street and significantly cheaper than >it used to be (although still more expensive than the crap). > >-- > Bob >
I've recently had a casual look at EU standards of the kind you're talking about. It seems to generally be a reasoned logical approach to protecting the citizens. I believe our regulations over here are generally designed as a compromise between the interests of big business and the citizens' health. Of course the sooner we kick the can, the less the government pays out in social security benefits and Medicare. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy, but I wonder what the politicians eat. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
