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- LETTERS, Page 10Beef Broil
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- I am fortunate in that I live on an eight-acre farm where I
- raise my own chicken, lamb, beef and pork. I control what these
- animals and my family eat. To punish the European Community because
- its members want to ban imports of U.S. beef treated with growth
- hormones is a disgusting response to their concern (BUSINESS, Jan.
- 9). We should not force Europeans to consume chemicals that they
- consider unacceptable.
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- Kathryn M. Poston
- Chester, Vt.
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- For the U.S. to insist that Europeans buy its polluted beef
- when Europeans wouldn't purchase this meat from their own farmers
- is idiotic. This position will certainly do no good for the
- reputation of U.S. farm products in general.
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- Walter Burghoff
- Tralee, Ireland
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- It's not a war over beef but one over hormone-contaminated
- beef. The only advantage of using hormones is to the producer,
- because animals will grow faster when treated with them. But
- European Community countries consider this adulteration a crime.
- I wonder why American consumers don't protest and refuse to pay for
- such meat.
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- Ernst Muller
- Celle, West Germany