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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
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