Mexico Punishes U.S. for Protecting its Citizens

Yes people even developing nations that we look at like been under us are now using their influences to fight back the mighty America with what hurts the most.

Economically

On Friday Mexico suspended purchases of U.S. meat products from 30 American plants operating in 14 different states. Many believe the move is retaliatory for the U.S. instituting country of origin labeling on meat products, which both the Canadian and Mexican governments have complained vigorously about. However, the Mexican government has citied unsanitary conditions at the meat processing plants as the reason behind the move.

Are they doing us a favor? I mean will this be the end of NAFTA.

That will be the day.

It seems that like China cheap, dirty and tainted goods now Mexico wants to keep the poisoning of American citizens with their tainted meats products.

COOL went into effect on Oct. 1 after numerous sickness outbreaks occurred in the U.S. over the last several years due to contaminated food products.

US at least "try" to protect its citizens because the outbreak of tainted goods in the last years, but that is not "COOL" for dirty goods that are brought from Places like Mexico, they want to keep importing their trash with not labeling.

COOL standards were a necessary measure put in place to protect U.S. citizens from tainted imports. Recently in the U.S. people have fallen ill due to Chinese products that were contaminated with melamine and from spinach that was tainted with salmonella from Mexico, among other contaminated foreign products.

I say lets boycott Mexico the way they are to us, tell them to take their tainted goods and shove them were the sun doesn't shine.

www.economyincrisis.org...

money.cnn.com...

Truly my friends how low can our nation go in order to satisfy NAFTA.

Marge,

It will not be that easy to foil the WTO's plans for us. With insiders in the corporate arena who can claim that there empires would crumble without access to the Mexican economy, we will kowtow to whatever they want.

Between that and the Codex Alimentarius I think we will not see much in the way of 'our' government achieving many goals towards removing the abuses of the market over which we are not intended to have any say.

marg, this is not the only case. In fact a lot of countries will not accept our food. The cattle is over medicated and poultry and eggs are not allowed for export if they so much as come near half the states in America due to bird flu. Excelent thread, but it only touches the tip of the iceburg. I'll dig up some links for you.

Ok, here you go.

USDA food safety and inspection service

they just updated the export information for Mexico today, again. scroll down and click on Mexico plant list.

It shows what meat/poultry plants are banned and why.

The problem is that the standards of food in the US require to be stamped with approval, but foods that comes from other nations would not follow the same standards.

Mexico is boycotting these regulations as they want the US to stop them.

Now while they wag their littler wars back and for we the consumer are at the mercy of all the regulations, oversight and lack off.

That is why I aways say buy local, support you local growers and forget China, Mexico and many other nations goods.

Our local grocery stores are now getting their produce from Mexico/U.S./Canada. I believe the grocers will soon stop getting their produce via the Super highway that most americans are against anyway. They have taken a big hit now that the meat they sell has to be labeled.
We are not the only ones who now go to our local meat market and buy from local farmers.

If they want to bitch and moan about us making sure the country of orgin is printed for everyone to see, then, let them. They are only hanging themselves. Its not going to hurt us any.

I do think it is a good thing in that it keeps farmers on their toes. Making them stick to certin standards as far as sanitary conditions go.

All that being said, I fail to see how this is bad for us.

After the many outbreaks of poisoning in the US from growers across the border I don't see a problem with having our nation wanting better standards from the food they import is just necessary.

But Mexico doesn't want that so they want to boycott Americans for wanting those standards of safety so they will stop buying foods from America.

Here where I live in the south we have local growers and also meat growers so is easier for me to buy local products.

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I find it hilarious to hear that Mexico is boycotting the U.S.!

Seriously, we may be in one hell of a downturn but never underestimate the resilience of people. The fact that the COOL labels are being used is at least a show that the people aren't at least looked upon as just cattle.

I'm Latino and I won't even eat in Mexico, my step father is Mexican and he agrees with me. By Mexico not buying our produce all they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot, we can easily survive with our own land, grow our food and nurture our animals. I'll gladly pay a higher fee if I know for a fact that my food is grown in the U.S. and is local.

Hell I'm sure everyone knows the saying "Don't drink the water down in Mexico". If you can't even drink the water, the hell makes anyone believe the food is any different?

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I can not agree with you more, but in order to get our food items from Mexico and abroad our own government is conspiring to pay our growers no to produce anything in their lands.,

This is the extend of the failure we have, call government, in order to bring everything from outside, under the umbrella of free trade and globalization.

Our own government no only is killing our industrial base and sending it oversea to make us nothing but consumers but it already has killed our agricultural base.

Incredible.

Now look what is happening, as a consumer only nation we are now failing.

I just had to laugh at that banned list.

Send mexico a new export
Many of those same companies are notorious for hiring illegals from Mexico.

Maybe they should fire all there illegals and call the INS to send them back.

That in my book would be the best export to mexico.

Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. there plants are always getting busted by the INS raids.

[edit on 31-12-2008 by ANNED]