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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (43652)	10/23/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Bobby Yellin	Respond to of 116760

o/t The goal is to ensure that the constant economic warfare (eg: French tariffs on US beef?) does not become physical warfare. a lot of americans are afraid to eat our chicken and beef and fish :-)

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (43652)	10/23/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116760

re: 1-2% or lower as Americans engaged in Agriculture all depends on how one wishes to count the numbers If one includes the governmental ag & soft commodities related jobs & do as the dept of labor does & add in some direct ag sales & service related jobs like seed & fertilizer distribution IMHO it can be stretched to around 1.2% which is near the dept of labor's 2% number. There are indications this is changing as KS farm radio station said the dept of labor is fudging the numbers starting 4th quarter to make Clinton / Gore team look better by moving some jobs from the transport sector to the farm sector. If that reporter was correct, The jobs importing the cheaper sugar from foreign lands are, starting this month, to be "farm jobs" and will allow the in power team to lay claim to yet another win.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (43652)	10/24/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116760

more on "It has nothing to do with beef quality": French have fed sewage to livestock for years BY MARTIN FLETCHER, VALERIE ELLIOTT AND PHILIP WEBSTER THE food war between Britain and France escalated last night with a disclosure that French farmers had fed livestock with sewage sludge including animal parts and human excrement for years. A report from the European Commission denounced the French conduct as unacceptable, and said that the authorities had failed to take any action against those responsible or to recover the potentially contaminated feedstuffs. It gave Paris just 15 days to produce an "action plan" for putting its house in order. Britain was resisting calls for a ban on all French meat products even though industry and opposition spokesmen demanded firmer action and their immediate withdrawal from supermarkets. British producers, furious at the apparent hypocrisy of the continuing French ban on British beef, threatened to intensify the row by demanding retaliation. The effects on public health of human and animal waste entering the food chain could be enormous(cont) the-times.co.uk