Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great! TSE's! Now have something new and highly insidious to be paranoid about. ... "But they laid eggs!!!!!" -- Mark William Rabiner mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 14:44:01 +0930 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] EU beef imports > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information