Fwd: It's just getting crazier!!

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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/

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> 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

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