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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
the article is gone from the site...there might be something to
this...japan won't get near U.S. beef...why is it ok for us? |
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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
nkd_one wrote:
japan won't get near U.S. beef...why is it ok for us? The question is why they won't go near US beef and if their claims are actually true. Japan has a long history of unfair trade practices with other nations. They protect their own industries and support Japanese exports any way they can. The US has a long history of mostly trending towards open trade practices with rare forrays into protectionism and tit-for-tat fair trade tactics. So does Japan block US beef to protect their own small internal cattle industry, or to influence the diet their citizens eat, or to get trade money out of the US without paying trade money to the US? On that front their statements about why they block their imports takes very little care for truth. So the way to tell is to look at foreign trade with other nations that have a long history of open trade policies and not trying to protect their own internal industries. Find such a nation, see if they block US beef, ask them why, and they will have less incentive to lie. A worry about the hormones and such given to cattle, but the reason I worry about that has nothing at all to do with what the Japanese trade negotiators say about the topic. |
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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
i think it's more about them protecting their people from the human
form of mad cow...i don't think our meat is safe as long as they grind up dead animals for feed...they stopped feeding dead cows to cows and this is good but not enough...cows should eat grass...on the news now is you can't eat deer because the deer now have some form of mad cow |
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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
Context was Japanese block import of US beef. I cited the long
history of protectionism as a reason that what they claim is often not their actual reason for blocking an import. nkd_one wrote: i think it's more about them protecting their people from the human form of mad cow... If Japan never blocked US beef before the appearance of even one positive test in US cattle, that would be a valid reason. The problem is Japan has gone in cycles blocking and not blocking US beef imports across the decades. Each time some reason has been cited and it has been used as a political football to get other Japanese products into the US. i don't think our meat is safe as long as they grind up dead animals for feed...they stopped feeding dead cows to cows and this is good but not enough...cows should eat grass...on the news now is you can't eat deer because the deer now have some form of mad cow The likely source was scrappy from sheep. Safe has always been a relative term. |
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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/30/72056.html
from the article: "The Koizumi cabinet, which has continued to lay the blame solely on the U.S., must also bear a grave responsibility in this matter," he said. Nakagawa's admission of inspection lapses followed comments over the weekend by the head of Japan's beef safety panel, who said Tokyo should only import U.S. beef from slaughterhouses inspected by the Japanese government. According to Kyodo News agency, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa also recommended separate processing lines for beef destined for the Japanese market due to different rules in the U.S. and Japan regarding what cattle parts are acceptable. .................................................. .................................................. ............ if the beef meet their standards there would be no problem...our beef industry needs to upgrade if they want to sell outside the U.S. |
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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
on second thought...i also agree japan has no intention of buying U.S.
beef and is looking for a reason to refuse any shipments |
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Fatty foods could make us mentally ill; May increase depression
Doug Freyburger wrote:
If Japan never blocked US beef before the appearance of even one positive test in US cattle, that would be a valid reason. The problem is Japan has gone in cycles blocking and not blocking US beef imports across the decades. Each time some reason has been cited and it has been used as a political football to get other Japanese products into the US. We're part of the problem too, though. I don't have a link, but read a story a while back - a cattle farmer invested in the facilities to test *every* animal he raised for mad cow and got approval from Japan to export his beef there. And the USDA forbade him to do it, so he lost his investment in the testing facilities. We don't test the vast majority of animals here in the US... and we don't *allow* even voluntary testing, for fear it would make the non-tested beef look bad. |
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