crappy American meat

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Aug 9 04:22:12 PDT 2002



> Russia isn't the only country afraid of American poultry. US chicken
> meat is essentially banned from most of the First World for exactly
> these reasons.

Actually, isn't this a lasting legacy of the original chicken war from 1962? Which never got resolved? So 40 years later, Europe still has high chicken tariffs, and the US still has 25% "temporary, retalitory" tariffs on small trucks and vans that were originally meant to only hurt Volkswagen?

Michael



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