No big deal, they boycott the Roquefort but WE won, we will not be eating their nasty hormone beef. Next we should tax 400% all the GM cars to finish the company off...two can play that game :)
what did they believe? that they can impose something to Americans without retaliation! i say that it's a model for any other state to say to europeans that they're perhaps united but not sufficently strong to challenge US market
I didn't eat meat at all until I moved to France from the USA over 13 years ago, partly because I trusted the meat here to be healthier than it is in the US (I was still a vegetarian during the Mad Cow scare that grazed France). If the French restaurants start serving meat imported from the US, I may just have to go back to my vegetarianism. Hmph. So as much as I don't like the moldy stuff, please do make a fuss, or put more pressure on USDA to stop allowing antibiiotics and hormones into American meat so that we can all trade happily.
by RiskManager (not verified) - 17/01/2009 - 06:56
well done the USA for safeguarding their "alimentary security". It is France that supports agricultural trade restrictions to preserve the aquis of its ineffient farmers paid for not by France but by Frances EU "partners". Lets us try it out Lets start the test with cheese and wine. OK France?
As Europeans shiver for lack of gas in their neighbour beggaring club I say "You made your bed, now lie in it!"
p.s. Iraqis are free in spite of France and despite France. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Cheese
No big deal, they boycott the Roquefort but WE won, we will not be eating their nasty hormone beef. Next we should tax 400% all the GM cars to finish the company off...two can play that game :)
What cheese?
I wonder if "Joe the plumber" even know what Roquefort cheese is? After all, You don't use it on pizza or hamburgers to often!
US triples import duty on french roquefort
what did they believe? that they can impose something to Americans without retaliation! i say that it's a model for any other state to say to europeans that they're perhaps united but not sufficently strong to challenge US market
Who needs that 2% anyway?
I didn't eat meat at all until I moved to France from the USA over 13 years ago, partly because I trusted the meat here to be healthier than it is in the US (I was still a vegetarian during the Mad Cow scare that grazed France). If the French restaurants start serving meat imported from the US, I may just have to go back to my vegetarianism. Hmph. So as much as I don't like the moldy stuff, please do make a fuss, or put more pressure on USDA to stop allowing antibiiotics and hormones into American meat so that we can all trade happily.
alimentary security
well done the USA for safeguarding their "alimentary security". It is France that supports agricultural trade restrictions to preserve the aquis of its ineffient farmers paid for not by France but by Frances EU "partners". Lets us try it out Lets start the test with cheese and wine. OK France?
As Europeans shiver for lack of gas in their neighbour beggaring club I say "You made your bed, now lie in it!"
p.s. Iraqis are free in spite of France and despite France. You should be ashamed of yourselves.