Rib-eye steaks every night now :)
At 04:58 AM 12/26/2003, you wrote:
>A growing list of countries has banned US beef imports. I dunno how the
>heck Trinidad got on that list! I always think we're too small for any
>news organisations to care what stance we take on issues. But so far two
>stances have been publicised....the fact that we rejected pressure by
>the US to not take part in the International Criminal Court (for which
>the US removed all military aid from our country) and now with the beef.
>Who knows what the US will do to us now for having the audacity to be
>worried about Mad Cow Disease affecting us! :-\
>
>
>"The United Arab Emirates and China, which in 2002 imported 532 million
>dollars of meat products, became the latest nations to suspend U.S. beef
>imports.
>
>
>Japan, the world's biggest importer of U.S. beef on a value basis,
>imposed an immediate ban after the U.S. announcement late Tuesday, and
>Mexico, the top importer by tonnage, quickly followed on Wednesday.
>
>
>South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia and
>Thailand, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Russia, Peru, Canada, South
>Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago all halted imports, leaving the
>politically weighty U.S. beef industry in turmoil.
>
>
>The scare knocked fears of a Christmas holiday terror strike to rival
>the September 11 attacks off the top of U.S. news bulletins."
>
>
>HYPERLINK
>"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/25/national/main590222.shtml"htt
>p://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/25/national/main590222.shtml
>
>
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