British food not good enough for Americans.. Burn it all FDA says....
 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES
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.

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"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.

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"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.

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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.

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:blink:

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US governement sucks.
Let's let our own people starve and spit on our allies.

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Yeah, it's infested with foreign cooties!

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Let's pool together, by an island and invite all the cool people to live, when we can find some. :lol:

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I know of such an island... It's called Britain!!! :p

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Oh, how I'd love that.
I know my Utopian fantasies are silly, but I'd love to live in a place where someone of a different religion would be greeted with "really? cool! got any great recipes to swap?" That's what I love about having friends of different religions. More holidays, more reasons to celebrate and great food.

I'm bringing my kids. My youngest is fascinated by how unprepared they were for "real life" by being raised by my husband and me. They were subjected to long discussions on "Freedom of Religion" and "Freedom of Speech" and were quite shocked to discover that all of their parent's teachings fell apart on them once they left the house. Putting into practice that "respect all other people" thing *really* fell apart when they discovered how genuinely stupid most people out there are.

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In my local Asda superstore (Walmart owned) you cant buy American meat :hmm:

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yeah that would be true , if everything north of Watford sunk into the North Sea.

;-))

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Many US restaurants won't donate food because they open themselves up to lawsuits if someone gets sick. We have a great legal system here.......

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Your spelling is atrocious! it's spelt: S O U T H ;)

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I was subjected to British food when I lived in Bemuda and I reached the same conclusion as the FDA...... :blink:











:yowsa:

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I would move there and probably feel more at home than I do here..

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The worst are the "class action suits" where the injured individual gets $50.

But the law firm gets $50m

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Is this the British paper that is akin to "our" New York Post where they print everything, usually before seeing if it's real?If I'm mistaken, fine. Just want to know if this is a reliable source or that "yellow sheet".

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*serious mode*
Interesting point. What I find both fascinating and horrifying is that we are so used to the incredible insanity of the American government that we were all so quick to believe it.

A freeway or something had to stop dead in mid construction because it would have disturbed the habitat of...five flies. (OK, I'm a little foggy on the details, but I'm positive on the "five flies" part. Fuck the humans and what they need...we've got to protect these five damned flies. Something I read recently.)

Thanks for slipping in a little rational thought, Dravyk. We need more of that. :)

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Watford is too far north .. oxford street is the boundary ;)

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That is the sad part. Even if it's not true, it's something that wouldn't surprise us at all about our government. I honestly don't think "mad cow" meat would be part of NATO rations.

And to not allow food from Italy? What harm could good pasta bring? :)

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Mmmm, pasta! That's what we're having tonight.. Wanna come over for dinner? :D

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All the Brits and former Brits reading this thread, and none have yet replied to the question about The Mirror ... Why is that?

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wasted burn..

I think the boats come in and he's having tut little fishy on the little dishy...eh up cartwright!!

:)

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You might just have something there ;)

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Because it's a dickheads paper, nothing in it happened the way they print it. :)

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Thank you, Trev!

That's what I had suspected. Appreciate the confirmation, mate!

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Wall St Journal Europe Edition ;) thats a paper .. shit i would be annoyed if we sent them sausages and black pudding / pies and wondered why they refused them, but K rations??? :blink:

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They had good food in the White Horse Pub in St. George ...

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Didn't spend much time up at that end of the island:) Most of my time off base was spent in the Primcess and the Sonesta Beach hotel and several clubs in town :okthumb:

Ate local at a couple of places in somerset, usually avoided the meat pie and the brains and the like...lolol....

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I was on that end of the island anyway, and while Hamilton wasn't that far from the base on a moped, my moped had difficulty navigating with the extra weight of Guiness on the trip back.

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lolol... Did many trips on bikes with various items being delicately balanced.

I had a 100 yamaha twin, road bike. Fun as hell to take on those long ass curves on the south shore. :yowsa:

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Oh, the only thing I had to worry about balancing was me - but that was enough of a challenge on the way back.

I couldn't even tell you what kind of bike that was. It cost me a whopping 20 bucks from some guy in the squadron we relieved, and had probably been on the base when we got it through lend-lease. :) I was an E-2 with less than a year in when we deployed, and was still paying off some advanced pay. I used to rent it out for $5 a night, and kept it rented 4-5 nights a week, although the damned Seabees stole it from me to ransom a bulldozer we borrowed once.

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When I was in Bermuda I rode a few bikes myself :)

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Typo? Was that supposed to be a "b"? :blink:

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Yes, that would be the way a gentleman would have to ride a bike.

With various items delicately balanced. :p

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Makes perfect sense for it to be a 'b' ;)

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This article is written in a particularly inflammatory manner, it wouldn't surprise me if the rejection of rations were true, with probably a reasonable and possibly even logical explanation behind it...

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Sin...that's one of the basic problems with all news media, not just American ones. They never go for the "reasonable and logical" explanations, they aim straight for inflammatory with little, if any, regard to the truth.