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Subject:	*Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was not* Spam & Chips)**
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:54:26 GMT
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> Needless to say I > have never eaten any beef from the USA, as it is unfit for human (or > animal?) consumption as far as the EU is concerned. Something to do with all > those lovely growth hormones you like in your beef. For those who are interested: The Demise of Democracy? http://www.ilsr.org/columns/052097.html ==+== In 1980, Europeans were horrified to discover that 2 and 3 year old children were reaching puberty. They traced the problem to growth hormones injected into animals. By the mid 1980s consumers in West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium had persuaded their governments to ban all hormone additives. In 1988 the European Union imposed a Europe-wide ban. In 1989 the ban was extended to imported beef. ==+== I think the kids involved were outside the EU where the level of hormones used were much higher than is advised in the USA now or the EU then. Either way, it was not nice. Scott A

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		Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was not Spam & Chips)
(...) That sounds pretty extreme, and like the incautious use of Thalidimide, something to be avoided. On the other hand it doesn't suggest anything about current levels of hormone injection. To tie two threads together, Flouride is a deadly poison. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was not Spam & Chips)
Perhaps you may have been here long enough to catch "mad cow disease"? Does your brain feel a little spongy? :-) I have not eaten beef more than ~12 years now due to BSE. Needless to say I have never eaten any beef from the USA, as it is unfit for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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