BRIT FOOD TO BURN? U.S. STUPIDITY OR INEPTNESS?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Brits now find out that their gifts are going to go up in smoke — burnt.
Britain has come to the aid of the destitute due to Hurricane Katrina. They’ve sent food to America for those hungry and homeless to have something to eat.
It’s causing quite a fuss within the Brit compound. They are raging, in fact, that while Britain is extending its cordial hand to the United States, the US seems to be snubbing the kindness from across the waters.
Now one wonders if the US is stupid in all this confusion or if it is just plain inefficiency at work. There has been a lot of the latter regarding the Katrina situation; therefore, for another circumstance focusing on ineptness to surface would be believable.
However, when it involves those good people from another country, it’s not something minor. Therefore, the Brits are complaining especially via their own media.
For instance, according to Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York for Mirror.co.uk, "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."
Brits are given to expressing themselves in particularly creative and colorful language. Therefore, it is with that kind of temper that one sorrowfully observes the Brit givers’ anguish at what is happening. As Parry reports it, "One British aid worker last night called the move ‘sickening senselessness’ and said furious colleagues were ‘spitting blood.’"
Now what Brits sent to the US is food eaten by both British and American troops in Iraq. So why cannot it be eaten by starving Americans hoisted out of normalcy due to a hurricane? Yet the Food and Drug Agency is doing little while the food "is sitting idle in a huge warehouse."
One worker said: "’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 organize 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.’"
With red tape running down the watered streets of what once was New Orleans-dry, Spain and Italy also have sent food. However, their gifts likewise don’t seem to meet American food standards; therefore, they have not been distributed to the starving.
Further, Israel reports that their relief offices are "furious that thousands of gallons of pear juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit."
What’s going on here? American stupidity or inefficiency or something else?
Stay tuned.
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
For More Information On This Story Visit: truthinconviction.us/weblog.php
Story Submitted By: joseph_swank@yahoo.com
Brits now find out that their gifts are going to go up in smoke — burnt.
Britain has come to the aid of the destitute due to Hurricane Katrina. They’ve sent food to America for those hungry and homeless to have something to eat.
It’s causing quite a fuss within the Brit compound. They are raging, in fact, that while Britain is extending its cordial hand to the United States, the US seems to be snubbing the kindness from across the waters.
Now one wonders if the US is stupid in all this confusion or if it is just plain inefficiency at work. There has been a lot of the latter regarding the Katrina situation; therefore, for another circumstance focusing on ineptness to surface would be believable.
However, when it involves those good people from another country, it’s not something minor. Therefore, the Brits are complaining especially via their own media.
For instance, according to Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York for Mirror.co.uk, "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."
Brits are given to expressing themselves in particularly creative and colorful language. Therefore, it is with that kind of temper that one sorrowfully observes the Brit givers’ anguish at what is happening. As Parry reports it, "One British aid worker last night called the move ‘sickening senselessness’ and said furious colleagues were ‘spitting blood.’"
Now what Brits sent to the US is food eaten by both British and American troops in Iraq. So why cannot it be eaten by starving Americans hoisted out of normalcy due to a hurricane? Yet the Food and Drug Agency is doing little while the food "is sitting idle in a huge warehouse."
One worker said: "’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 organize 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.’"
With red tape running down the watered streets of what once was New Orleans-dry, Spain and Italy also have sent food. However, their gifts likewise don’t seem to meet American food standards; therefore, they have not been distributed to the starving.
Further, Israel reports that their relief offices are "furious that thousands of gallons of pear juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit."
What’s going on here? American stupidity or inefficiency or something else?
Stay tuned.
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
For More Information On This Story Visit: truthinconviction.us/weblog.php
Story Submitted By: joseph_swank@yahoo.com
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