Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are also no agricultural subsidies in Australia. Some argue that our quarantine system is a trade barrier, but we are free of many very serious plant and animal diseases, including all the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Marty On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > All rich countries with the exception of NZ protect and subsidize their > agriculture. The EU is no worse than the US in this regard. > > As for European consumers' unwillingness to eat GM food and > hormone-treated beer, I wonder who is naive here. it is telling that the > US and big food companies are unwilling to even LABEL foodstuffs as > containing GM crops--apparently, informing the consumer what is in the box > is bad for business... > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > YNWA > > > > > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > >> That's funny. When I was living in the UK, not so long ago, eating beef on >> the bone was prohibited because of the danger of Mad Cow disease and most >> lamb and mutton was imported from NZ because of the presence of scrapie in >> local flocks. There was also Frankenfood legislation pending against ANY >> genetically modified crops. It seems that EU consumers are easily spooked >> and governments are extremely protective of local farmers. >> >> >> Larry Z >> >> >> - - - - - >> >> >> wasn't all that long ago that I read headlines about >> >> the EU refusing importation of US meat >> >> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113314725> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> George Lottermoser >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >