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Psychlone
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20 Sep 2005, 6:27 am

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid%3D16147117%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D94762%26headline%3Dexclusive--58--up-in-flames-name_page.html

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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.

"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."


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20 Sep 2005, 7:09 am

It's not uncommon for aid goods to be of disputed quality. Most of the corn given to Mexico as aid is of a GM type deemed unfit for human consumption in the US.
Governments also get upset if they percieve ther giving of aid to reflect on them. Its a sad mixed up world.



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20 Sep 2005, 3:15 pm

IMO they should just give it out to people and say sometihng like, "This isn't good enough, so could you be a chum and throw it out?" You know, let it be up to the people who need it to decide if they are or are not "that desperate."



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20 Sep 2005, 4:19 pm

Agreed, need is need. When you think your family or your life is in danger it's surprising what becomes acceptable until something better comes.