A story circulating (I’ll place a caveat on whether it is true or not, there have been many false rumors that have come out of this whole Katrina mess) about 400,000 MRE shipped in from England to feed the NO victims are set to be destroyed by the FDA. The reason? Here:

It is perfectly good Nato approved food of the type British servicemen have. Yet the FDA are saying that because there is a meat content and it has come from Britain it must be destroyed.

But that is not the only indignity:

Food from Spain and Italy is also being held because it fails to meet US standards and has been judged unfit for human consumption.

And Israeli relief agencies are furious that thousands of gallons of pear juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit.

Yes, big government is stupid.