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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (9403)	2/12/2003 8:39:45 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 14610

It may be time for another Jorj X. McKie petition.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (9403)	2/12/2003 9:31:06 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14610

Mr. Yuck Labels. LOL Well, I'm going to personally boycott Evian. As far as I'm concerned, our California wines etc. beat the pants off France anyway, so I don't need to officially boycott French wine.<g> Don't buy it anyway. So there.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (9403)	2/12/2003 11:54:44 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

<<Two U.S. wine experts contacted by The Washington Post said a few French wineries used bovine blood as a clarifier >> Thats F*ckin gross. I say we send them milk with pig spoo as a thickener

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (9403)	2/12/2003 12:26:50 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Aside from the fact that Tom DeLay is a moron... as for the clarifying process in wines (called finning)... Another one of those favored "alarmist techniques used by politicians..." ____________________________________ "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken _____________________ there are many other clarifying agents that are used in the process... animal blood not only it is prohibited in France, (I am not 100% sure of this but I would bet on it), but it is hard to keep fresh... so unpractical given the alternatives... and in an industrial production, the alternatives are far easier to use and probably less expensive in the cheaper wines... filtration is used, but a lot of the flavor is lost using this method. There are many finning agents... some are here... makewine.com Again... do I disagree to the French and German stances... YES... But... This is what I hate about politicians.... they lie through their teeth and they think we do not know it... unfortunately there are many .... who believe them. btw.... one of the most delicious things of Argentinean food (and other parts of the world) is BLOOD sausage... delicious ! wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I need no stinking politician telling me what I should eat or drink, or not, or a stupid label telling me "alcohol may impair me in driving machines blah blah blah... DUH !