Thread: Mexico prohibits poultry imports from Arkansas over bird flu

Mexico prohibits poultry imports from Arkansas over bird flu outbreak

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico is banning poultry imports from Arkansas because of a bird flu outbreak.

Mexico's Agriculture Department says poultry meat, fertilized eggs, song birds and messenger pigeons are banned indefinitely.

Avian influenza cases led to the destruction of 15,000 hens in western Arkansas earlier this month. The virus strain was not harmful to humans.

Mexico is a major market for U.S. chicken. The U.S. Agriculture Department says Mexico imported some 221,000 tons of chicken products in 2007.

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The revenge of the tomato pickers

Jimpasz, that's exactly what I was thinking!!!!LOL

They're just ticked about the whole tomato thing.

Originally Posted by jimpasz

The revenge of the tomato pickers

Sounds like a movie title.

Originally Posted by Disillusioned

Originally Posted by jimpasz

The revenge of the tomato pickers

Sounds like a movie title.

A mix of "Little shop of Horrors" and Hitchcocks "The Birds"

Originally Posted by jimpasz

The revenge of the tomato pickers

Hahaha!

I wonder what is going on anyway???? Why the sudden STALL???

I am curious, but as a nation, weren't we more productive and prosperous, when we were not as "open" to overseas trade?

I was trying to remember, but there had been something I read a while back about it, that in the later 1800's, early 1900's, we were more self-sufficient and our economy was stable.

Isolationist? Maybe it is not such a bad idea, to some degree. We would certainly learn to become more self-sufficient and be the more agrigarian nation we once were, it made us stronger and healthier.