£2.7 million worth of UK rejected by the US!

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and now it's costing them $16,000 a month storing it while they find a suitable foreign recipient!

Bloody Americans! don't get me started(and don't even mention the French! )

Why don't they send them back then? If they can afford to waste $16000 a month then imo they didn't really need our help in the first place.

ooh, can I have it?

bloody cheek send them back our boys can use them then can't they - I knwo the food's not the best but it's better than nothing.

Leave it there until we need it, let them pay the rental costs.

There are people starving in the world. FGS

I know it seems stupid, by the US is paranoid about BSE. . .I mean, I'm technically not even allowed to donate blood over there b/c I've lived in the UK for too long. It's probably quite a red-tape legal thing, I should think, having to do with strict Food & Drug Adminstration guidelines. So even if rationally people over there know the food isn't tainted, there's probably not much that can be done about allowing its use.

It's shelf-life is running out.
I read in the Observer on sunday that they are looking into the possibility of sending it to Guatamala.
Aloha - you cannot eat half a million packs of army rations, you will explode, and you won't like it anyway.

Oh bugger, couldn't be bothered to click on link and thought it was lovely money. Poo!

So what's more obscene here, that the US rejected aid because of a negligible risk of BSE? Or that we are spending £2.7 million of tax payers money sending food to the most overfed nation on earth?