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Old 07-03-2003, 10:44 PM
Jim Webster
 
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Default US pulls back from food war with Europe

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Marcus Williamson wrote in message
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never heard of food allergies?


Absolutely. But GM foods aren't going to do anything to help that...


so what, you are the one who is claiming that food is safe because we
have been eating it for a long time



Oh, before you go on about allergen-free peanuts, perhaps you can
indicate what will happen when a shipment of 99.99% of allergen-free
peanuts get "contaminated" with 0.01% allergic peanuts... Well, you
either discard the whole lot, or you end up with ill/dead people...


no, you do what you always do, you sell them to people who eat peanuts
anyway, so you have to discard none of it.


Of the people I know with peanut allergy, none would trust a
"non-allergenic" variety...


well if they share your broad minded attitude it is hardly surprising


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Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'