it is there food aid to Katrina victims being destroyed by FDA

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian Smithson <brian () grot com>
Date: September 20, 2005 7:00:23 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] food aid to Katrina victims being destroyed by FDA


I found the page. You have to paste together the URL from fragments  
-- and watch out for spaces that might appear. The article is there,  
exactly as quoted in the OP.

- Brian

David Farber wrote:

> Noise?
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ted Dolotta <Ted () Dolotta ORG>
> Date: September 20, 2005 6:02:52 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: RE: [IP] food aid to Katrina victims being destroyed by FDA
> Reply-To: Ted () Dolotta ORG
> I tried the URL below; no such page.
> I also went to the Mirror.co.uk home page and did a search on Katrina;
> a lot of articles, but nothing remotely resembling this one.
> Could this be a hoax?
> Thanks,
> Ted Dolotta
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:10 PM
> > To: Ip Ip
> > Subject: [IP] food aid to Katrina victims being destroyed by FDA
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: docx () io com
> > Date: September 20, 2005 4:52:06 PM EDT
> > To: dave () farber net
> > Subject: food aid to Katrina victims being destroyed by FDA
> >
> >
> > For IP if you deem appropriate.  I can't come up with words to
> > express my
> > astonishment at this.
> >
> >
> > http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/
> > tm_objectid=16147117&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusi
> > ve--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.
> >
> > 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."
> >
> > 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."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > alive, but it's
> >   really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'
> >
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