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Old 02-05-2003, 06:02 PM   #7
WillowIX
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Join Date: July 10, 2001
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
In the Beef-Hormone case. The UK/EU argued hormone treated beef was a potential health hazard (sanitary/phytosanitary measure) and produced thousands of pages of science. The US said it wasn't, but could not release studies because they were Monsanto's trade secrets. The US won. Now, this is once again a burden-of-proof shell game: The UK, rightfully, wanted proof it was harmless before approving it; the US, wrongly but winningly, argued the UK must prove it bad before erecting any trade barriers.

But to prove that the UK scientist would of course need access to all US livestock. I canīt see the American farmers endorsing that. Unfortunately scinetists do not have much say in this matter. Politics and greed seem to be more important than health.

3. Any famine problem, the world over, can be solved by: (1) controlling population growth, and (2) a vegetarian diet (as the scientists can tell you, when a Cow eats grass and then we eat the cow, 90% of the energy found in the grass is lost - not to menion the resources we wasted caging, injecting, treating, transporting, and butchering the cow).
Too bad we canīt digest grass. Maybe if we infect all humans with the necessary bacteria. Of course replacing our blood with cholorphyll would be even more effective. LOL!
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