U.S. Meat

So our government, enraged with the European Community’s refusal to purchase our hormone-laced beef, contemplates economic reprisals. How dare the Europeans refuse what is foisted on the American population! What nerve they have to protect their people when it cuts into our profit! Never mind their concerns about long-term health effects. If the American people are forced to eat hormone- or tetracycline-treated beef and poultry, why should the population of Europe be different?

If this boycott continues, it might even spread to our shores. Maybe our farmers, forced to stop doctoring their beef and chicken in order to sell them abroad, might even have to do it here. Horrors! What is this world coming to?

JOAN MORRISON

Costa Mesa