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Skriven 2008-06-06 12:48:42 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 17289 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Humo(u)r
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06 Jun 08 01:08, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe:

 MV>>> But the chicken feed and the human food compete for the same basic
 MV>>> ingredients on the global market.

 RB>> Firstly, that's not the case unless you happen to like things most
 RB>> people class as "unfit for human consumption".

 MvdV> Basic ingredients for both chicken feed and human food are farm
 MvdV> land, sunlight and fertiliser.

The difference being that man does not eat his own shit. Well, some do,
but that's another story best related to the history of Ward Dossche.

Chicken feed is made up of animal proteins too, since they're omnivores.
Feeding chickens is quite an experience: as you throw down the feed, they
walk all over it while shitting and a bird behind that one eats it. Pretty
soon the feed is gone, but the chickens continue to feed, on the shit. The
natural habitat for a chicken is the farm, where they can get their feed
from nature. They also eat bugs, grass and other plant food.

 RB>>  Or you're assuming, for reasons I can't imagine, that American
 RB>> chicken farmers will import their feed from Euro areas.

 MvdV> No, but the US producers of chicken feed will _export_ to the Euro
 MvdV> area, thereby reducing supply on the US market and driving the
 MvdV> price up (in Dollars).

Doubtful...US chicken feed producers aren't going to feed the competition.
If they did, American chicken farmers wouldn't be able to compete. If they
can't compete, they don't buy feed...vicious circle.

 MV>>> 1) I wrote "others", not Europeans. The Amercican chicken when
 MV>>> imported into Europe will not only have to compete with Europe
 MV>>> grown chickens but with everyone else importing chickens into
 MV>>> Europe. Think about China...

 RB>> Maybe, but I can remember several times in the last decade when the
 RB>> chicken market in Hong Kong collapsed due to disease. People tend to
 RB>> prefer reliable suppliers, and ones who stay out of the news
 RB>> reports.

 MvdV> Diseases happen everywhere.

But not as often as they do in the orient. Where hundreds of Chinese die
of bird flu, there has yet to be such in NA.

 MvdV> Even here in The Netherlands. H5N1 has done a lot of damage to the
 MvdV> poultry industry all over the world, the US chickens will not be
 MvdV> immune.

Bird Flu is being over-reported and too vaguely reported, causing a global
hysteria. You're a victim of that hysteria.

Valuable, genetically unique and irreplacable poultry is being destroyed
en masse, without conclusive testing. (See China)

The Germans have assaulted and wiped out small poultry farms (and now,
massacering carrier-pigeons, too, though the owners can prove that bird
flu is not found in pigeons at all!)

 RB>> We're still talking about your naive expectation that somehow
 RB>> American chicken will be too expensive to sell here in Euroland.

 MvdV> What I know is so far no one from outside the Eurozone has been
 MvdV> successful in penetrating the local market. Here in the supermarket
 MvdV> you find fresh chicken from The Netherlands and some frozen chicken
 MvdV> from the rest of the Euro zone, mostly Germany. That's it.

LOL! See above.

                R\%/itt



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