Irish Pork

[terambulan]

What dioxins have been found in Irish Pork? Exactly what is a dioxin?

Is this another case of Gov over-reacting and killing our farming industry.

[pastafreak]

Dioxins are cancer-causing agents. I only know about them because some areas where I grew up in NY were cancer hot spots because of high concentrations of them.I think they are industrial by-products.

[pastafreak]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_note s/358889.stm

[Ice.Maiden]

Absolutely. Very poisonous. If they get into the water supply, they can effect the food chain. Dioxins can be in chemcals which get into footstuff - eg. fruit and crops which're sprayed with it.

[brionon]

Another case ? What other cases do you know of our Government killing the Farming Industry ?

[Gromit]

Killing our farming industry?

The ban is on imports from Ireland. If anything, a ban on these imports might help our (I assume you mean British) farming industry.

[anotheoldgit]

No, it's just the Muslims trying to get Pork banned.

[daffy654]

Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain.

[Haggisdj]

Aaah - actually daffy654 it's not part of Great Britain it's part of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - the UK... Great Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales.

[joannie10]

i thought it was pork from republic of ireland rather than northern ireland?

[THECORBYLOON]

There's about ten farms in Ulster that have used the contaminated feed.