On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 04:38:50 GMT, "Marc" <box526TR@spamtrap.net>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

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>"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>news:3FABB4B5.84FE81D4@yahoo.co.jp...
>> And again, the Japanese problem is blamed on a foreign
>> source. A virus which never existed in Japan, says the
>> news, as people are looking into how it came into
>> Japan. As a matter of fact, it had never been seen
>> ANYWHERE in the world until recent years, so who is to
>> say where it actually existed first, where it came
>> from, or whose or which country's "fault" it is for
>> being in Japan? Same for BSE.
>>
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>I keep remembering the stories about how foreign rice and other foods should
>be kept out of Japan because they have "high residues of pesticides". Then I
>read a report in the Economist that noted that Japan uses among the highest
>amounts of pesticides per m2 of farmland of any country in the world.

Yeah, but Japanese farmers use real safe pesticides. I know this must
be true because very often I see them out applying a fog of chemicals
to their crops and almost never do I see any of them using any sort of
safety equipment.