U.S. rejects Katrina meals, offers them to others

[tocqueville]

Mon Oct 17,12:12 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday offered needy countries more than 330,000 packaged meals donated by Britain to feed Hurricane Katrina victims but rejected due to a U.S. ban on British beef.

State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the "Meals Ready to Eat," or MREs, had been held in a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, for more than a month after U.S. Agriculture Department officials said they could not be distributed in the United States because they contained British beef products.

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An additional 33,000 MREs from Germany, Russia, Spain and France had also not been distributed to hurricane victims because of U.S. legal restrictions, Ereli said without elaborating.

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"We obviously want to find needy populations and get them these supplies as soon as possible, because if you need them, you need them now. So we're eager to resolve this soon," said Ereli, adding he did not know what the expiration dates were on the food packages.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051017/od_nm/hurricanes_meals_dc

[LostinVA]

1. Yup... who cares if them damn furriners get Mad Cow?

Just less of 'em, and more of us good, ole White, God-fearin' Murricans....

[derby378]

2. Now that's a confusing message, indeed

Our government says, "This beef isn't good enough for Americans to eat, but hey, we'll let the brown people eat it!"

All of a sudden, my head hurts.

[eleonora]

3. Yeah because those 3rd world countries are so used to diseases

what's Mad Cow to them heh? :sarcasm:

[eleonora]

4. Yeah because those 3rd world countries are so used to diseases

what's Mad Cow to them heh? :sarcasm:

[uppityperson]

5. Why the hell didn't they give them out to Katrina survivors?

"US legal restrictions" my ass. Pull the damned beef pasties out of the packages and give them to people who need food. Were all 330,000 beef ridden or what? argh argh argh.