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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
- The Bear Pit
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Not my fault. Just looking at historic restoration pics.
The caption was like deja vu all over again.
India vs Pakistan
- By Mr.BR
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Well now you own ukraine or better said Black Rock owns ukraine.
We in EU are out of more money than US but aproach and outcomes are much different.
Our politicans aproach , money for nothing , cocaine for free
Donnies aproach
Trump is back…the “Now What” thread
- By Mr.BR
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Not realyLol, it is a form of subsidizing when such a disproportionate % of their revenue/profits are from the US. It's valid to ask why that is, and I agree it's the "system".
Non-profit insurers, well....what makes that possible but on the backs of the US taxpayer/patients and US insurers (who are in on it too)? Pharma going to get those profits some way or another...
Specifically, what are US beef cattle treated with that is outlawed in the EU?
Non-profit insurers are all state owned one way or another ,have absolute monopoly ,private insurers mainly offer extra coverage. Has nothing to do with US insurers or taxpayers .
Medical insurance especially when they have a monopoly (prescirption drugs) holds most of the leverage when it comes to negotiating prices ,as you either negotiate a price or you are not selling at all.There is no choice of taking business to someone else. Next factor is use of generics that is far more common than in US ,due to different patent and trademark laws that are bend over backward to enable max extraction for Pharma players ,further cutting pharmas bargaing power and third and most important one US Congress and Senate for decades blocked negotiating down drug prices at every step.
US beef is packing more steroids and antibiotics than your local gym ,use of growth homones has been banned in europe already in the 80's .
US meat is not banned in Europe.EU laws requires that food meets certain standards if it is to be sold to the public.
Some European meat fails those standards and cannot be sold in Europe as well. Quality meat from US sold in EU
''1989, the European Communities banned the import of meat that contained artificial beef growth hormones,[a] although they were approved for use in the United States''
A series of "hormone scandals" emerged in Italy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first, in 1977, was the discovery of premature puberty in northern Italian schoolchildren. Investigators cast suspicion on school lunches that used illegal hormone-treated meat.
Then there is issue of extensive use of antibiotics , even the beef that is adverised to be anitibiotics free is not.Its even worse in poulty.
It’s been estimated that 70 percent of medically-important antibiotics sold in the U.S. — those used to treat human infections — are used to produce meat, dairy and other animal-sourced products. The difference between what’s presented on labels and actual use means the public may not understand the urgency. “It is going to mean that we don’t have the full appreciation of the pressure our agricultural industry puts on the ability of those drugs to resolve human infections,”
Federal Inspectors Found Antibiotics in Beef 'Raised Without Antibiotics.' They Took No Action
JBS, Cargill and Tyson appear to have misled consumers.
sentientmedia.org
Important difference is that in EU doubt in safety is enough vs US it has to be proven beyond shadow of a doubt (you can imagine science is more often than not beholden to $$$) .But that is also why there is a huge divergence on chemicals that are permited in US food.
The EU often applies the precautionary principle very stringently in regards to food safety. The precautionary principle means that in a case of scientific uncertainty, the government may take appropriate measures proportionate to the potential risk.
