beef

What is Europe's Beef About Our Beef? Right now Europe is fighting for the right to refuse to import beef from the U.S. and Canada that has been grown with the aid of artificial hormones. The purpose of these hormones is to force the livestock to grow in a rapid, unnatural way. Beef has been grown this way in North America for some time, and is sold with no special labeling. Here, meats that …

…the W.T.O. to tell them that they must accept this product as the same good as their naturally grown livestock? When we import cars from other countries we mandate that they must meet certain safety and emission requirements that are unique to Canada (e.g.: daytime running head lights etc.). How is the beef issue different? Does the W.T.O ruling make one wonder who the W.T.O is really representing?