[gilligan]

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES
Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans
From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York

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.

And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for incineration.

One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening senselessness" and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood".

The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed.

Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, to dump it at an FDA incineration plant.

The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000 operational ration packs had been shipped to the US.

But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded the shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.

The aid worker, who would not be named, said: "This is the most appalling act of sickening senselessness while people starve.

"The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as unfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato approved rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq.

"Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations, yet the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke because of FDA red tape madness."

The worker added: "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 organise 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."

The Ministry of Defence said: "We understand there was a glitch and these packs have been impounded by the US Department of Agriculture under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.

"The situation is changing all the time and at our last meeting on Friday we were told progress was being made in relation to the release of these packs. The Americans certainly haven't indicated to us that there are any more problems and they haven't asked us to take them back."

Food from Spain and Italy is also being held because it fails to meet US standards and has been judged unfit for human consumption.

And Israeli relief agencies are furious that thousands of gallons of pear juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit.

The FDA said: "We did inspect some MREs (meals ready to eat) on September 13. They are the only MREs we looked at. There were 70 huge pallets of vegetarian MREs.

"They were from a foreign nation. We inspected them and then released them for distribution."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

[MexicanGreen]

their cheap fucks we dont need shitty food we have tons of volunteers cooking hot meals the problem was getting the people to the shelters, now we need money not fuckin shitty military rations... burn it and burn it good then piss on the ashes

[gilligan]

Easy for you to say, you have food and a house.

[MexicanGreen]

what the fuck do u want done with this shit i dont get yur point on it you've been flippin shit in a few threads over it.... we have fuckin food to give them, nice hot food in every single shelter... the people flooded on their roof didn't want a military ration tossed to them they wanted rescued, and sent to a shelter where theres tons of nice hot food they serve it all day its better eatin then they mostly get... but it's not even a matter of that it was unfit to eat. they want gumbo and a beer not some pissed on rat food

[MexicanGreen]

i also find it funny as hell that the shit they feed their troops we consider unfit for consumption also...

[Mr Skinner]

Same thing as the one I posted about teh german army supplies. Now it seems to me there's no a lot of foreign aid that doesn't reach those in need. This might provce itself fatal in the future. If this destruction of aid continues, noone will ever send help to the US any more.

Now I know mexi will say 'fuck that, we can manage'. But that's for time to tell...

At least I know I'm a bit more reluctant to send help over there. Sorry.

[gilligan]

yea id rather take in aid than spend federal dollars. We give so much out i wish we wouldnt be suck dicks and take some back.

Almost any wild animal you kill and eat wouldnt be fit for human consumption by the fda either, so dont ride too high on that horse. I dont see people dropping from it in europe.

and besides, the people who would be recieving it eat chitlins and pig feet.

[Luke]

fuck our government up it's filthy, hairy asshole

[kid_3]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

yea id rather take in aid than spend federal dollars. We give so much out i wish we wouldnt be suck dicks and take some back.

pride wont take the US anywhere....

[Mr Skinner]

Rebuilding the city is gonna cost a shitload...why not accept aid and save some money for the rebuild? Makes absolutely no sense to me...