Guest guest Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 Oh Boy - what a mess... Anna > michelle magee > September 19, 2005 8:30:25 PM HST > > I can't believe the govt. is STILL doing this kind of stuff!! We have > people (countries) willing to help, sending us aid, and we spit in > their faces! Makes me sick! If they are worried about people getting > sick due to eating this food,... that doesn't even make sense.. cuz if > they DON'T get the food.. they will most likely suffer and DIE > anyway! AND.. think of how many food banks, and homeless that could > be fed with these meals. Hell, they could be handed out on the > street! In any city with homeless! > > > http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ > tm_objectid%3D16147117%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D94762%26headline%3Dex > clusive--58--up-in-flames-name_page.html > > > EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES > Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be > BURNED by Americans > From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York > > 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. > > NEEDY: Evacuees from New Orleans > > And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent > for incineration. > > One British aid worker last night called the move " sickening > senselessness " and said furious colleagues were " spitting blood " . > > The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a > huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had > already left to be distributed. > > Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, > to dump it at an FDA incineration plant. > > The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000 > operational ration packs had been shipped to the US. > > But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded > the shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of > meat. > > The aid worker, who would not be named, said: " This is the most > appalling act of sickening senselessness while people starve. > > " 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. > > " Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations, > yet the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke > because of FDA red tape madness. " > > PAIN: Child survivor cries > > The worker added: " There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock > soon - of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest > nation couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery and lets Americans > starve while they arrogantly observe petty regulations. > > " Everyone is revolted by the chaotic shambles the US is making of this > crisis. Guys from Unicef are walking around spitting blood. > > " This is utter madness. People have worked their socks off to get food > into the region. > > " 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. > > " If they are trying to argue there is a BSE reason then that is > ludicrously out of date. There is more BSE in the States than there > ever was in Britain and UK meat has been safe for years. " > > The Ministry of Defence said: " We understand there was a glitch and > these packs have been impounded by the US Department of Agriculture > under regulations relating to the import and export of meat. > > " The situation is changing all the time and at our last meeting on > Friday we were told progress was being made in relation to the release > of these packs. The Americans certainly haven't indicated to us that > there are any more problems and they haven't asked us to take them > back. " > > 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. > > The FDA said: " We did inspect some MREs (meals ready to eat) on > September 13. They are the only MREs we looked at. There were 70 huge > pallets of vegetarian MREs. > > " They were from a foreign nation. We inspected them and then released > them for distribution. " > > Voice of the Mirror: Page 6 > > Britain drifting to ghettos: Page 24 > > Print article > > Email to a friend > > > **~ Michelle ~** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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