Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED

[Jon8503]

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES
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.

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[goddess40]

1. crap on the last ally we have -way to go republicans

sounds like business as usual - no one is going to save Amurican's but the right wingers. And that's only after they are done shopping for their luxury items.

[rodeodance]

2. too many cooks in the kitchen

[daninthemoon]

3. Are these MRE? Those can outlast a nuclear winter. Who decided

the stuff wasn't good enough? Did we ask any homeless people if was satisfactory? I'm guessing not. So, No to Canadian drugs, and No to British food relief.

[sepia_steel]

4. Sort of sounds like MRE's

MORE AND MORE BULLSHIT!!! It just never stops...

[sakabatou]

5. shit.

[madeline_con]

6. British MRE's 86ed by the FDA? What a crock!

Un fucking believable!

[OneBlueSky]

7. there is NO WAY the total fuckup of this relief effort wasn't intentional

no way at all . . . the screwups are just too numerous to be mere incompetance, negligence, or indifference . . . it HAS TO be an intentional sabotage of the entire rescue/recovery/relief effort . . . and it's all on FEMA's doorstep . . .

and FEMA takes their marching orders from Cheney . . .

[HEyHEY]

8. Well, British food ISN'T fit for Human consumption

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Trust me even a classic cold british breakfast

would be very tasty if you are very hungry

:-)


Oh and thanks for your teams, they made your people proud.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. another thread here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4834831&mesg_id=4834831

oh and yes stupid FDA... BSE our beef is not safe for human consumoption why? BSE

[nonconformist]

11. This is an outrage!! Nominating. nt