Re: Dioxins in Belgian butter - Chicken and meat - French raw milk cheeses

[Heather <hk3219@ark.ship.edu>]

hello,

while my comment won't be worth much, i felt like giving my two cents.
it is beneficial for humans to not consume any animal products anyway,
one reason being bioaccumulation of chemicals like dioxin in them.
i think focusing on issues of complete nonvoluntary exposure to dioxins 
is more important. thanks.

Heather


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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Emmanuel de Broux wrote:

> Dear listers,
> 
> The Belgian government had decided, a few days ago, to forbid the sale of
> Belgian butter (min. 82 percent fat) in Belgium because of its too high
> dioxin content. Surprisingly, cheese (45 percent fat typ.) sale could be
> persued. Several countries have then decided to forbid Belgian butter imports.
> 
> There is something hypocritical about all this. There is dioxins in milks
> collected in the Netherlands, in Belgium, in France and most probably in
> other countries too. This is a fact known since several years but it is
> totally ignored by the Belgian Press. Butter made with these milks also
> contains dioxins.
> 
> So, Belgium is considered by the European Union "experts" as the only
> country to be blamed for this. I guess that commercial afterthoughts are
> not absent here.
> 
> In Belgium, the situation is still chaotic for what concerns chicken, pork
> and beef meat. But it is not the only country where poor practices in the
> production of animal food have been discovered. In fact, an article in the
> French satiric newspaper published last Wednesday, Le Canard Enchainé,
> reports horrifying practices having taken place in France. The matching
> article published by the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique is attached
> (sorry, it is in French).
> 
> That article also reports that listeria has been found in French raw goat
> milk cheese. Considering that listeria is much more dangerous than dioxins,
> in the short term anyway, we still wait in Belgium for a reaction by the EU.
> 
> Best regards.