Gee guys, Figure it out. The middle of North America is filled with farms growing corn and soy beans. Exporting these grains isn't very profitable, and we haven't figured out how to turn it into gasoline yet, so we these grains to cattle and grow these higher value products instead.
Other parts of the world don't have the cheap grains to grow beef, but they have some growers of high cost meat. To protect these local agricultural industries, they need to impose barriers of some kind. I have no problem with this. But stop with the silly, self-rightous puffing about how superiour Europe is vs N. America. When the UK government and sheep industry had the first inklings of prions, you stopped feeding sheep brains/parts to your own cattle but shipped it off as feed to other countries. No profit motive in that and surely the high road morally. 5 years later you were culling your cattle herds for Mad Cow and other countries had it as well. Regards, Bob S. On 4/26/07, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not "the" issue, but, rather, an issue. > > Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > Date: 4/26/2007 10:41:00 AM > > Subject: Re: WAY OT, but not inflamatory: Roast Beef Sandwich > > > > P. J. Alling wrote: > > > > >I wonder how much of that is real health concerns and how much is > > >hidden protectionism. > > > > The issue is bacterial diseases building resistance to antibiotics > > because of their overuse in livestock. > > > > Antibiotic-resistant diseases are a big problem and getting bigger. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
