Japan is bannin' US beef - again!

[Deja Q]

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/01/20/ap2463954.html

Just as U.S. officials were talking optimistically of selling more beef in Asia despite some lingering import restrictions related to mad cow disease, word came from Tokyo that Japan's would halt U.S. imports.

Maybe as they see how we put profit over quality, they're not convinced of our veracity. Oh well.

[patdem]

1. Or how we 'pretend' to investigate in the FDA? n/t

[deminks]

2. Seems Bushco just can't follow through with promises

snip

But in an unexpected setback Friday, Japan's agriculture minister said he believes U.S. meat producers have already violating the agreement that allowed American beef back into Japan. Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa recommended a total halt to American beef imports if officials confirm a recent U.S meat shipment contained material at risk for the disease, a ministry spokesman said.

Nakagawa, said recently that imported beef from the U.S. may have included material from cattle backbones. Including parts of the cow thought to be at high risk of containing mad cow disease - such as spines, brains and bone marrow - would violate terms of an agreement that last month partially lifted a 2-year-old ban on American beef.

Idiots. A 2 year ban is a 2 year ban. Bushco is losing our allies, now. How much longer can they be allowed to practice their hate all over the world? (rhetorical question- a play on the OBGYN bushism)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Check out the appointees to the USDA and the growing scandals

within that agency.
Bad stuff for everyone. I do not blame the Japanese at all.

[TheFarseer]

4. if bush cared about the people that supported him

he would fight for all the farmers and ranchers this is hurting, but it's more important to him to put cronies in high places and have lax policies toward meat packers. Plus they seem to revel in the trade deficit.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Crony-Gate

It screwed up FEMA and it is screwing up USDA and everything else.

Chriso-fascist Dominionist Crony Bureaucracy. You will like it.

So just shut up and eat your tainted meat product-and-byproduct with-bonus-Chemical-and-Hormone-ADDITIVES ration.