Darwin wrote:
] RUSSELS -- Last week I went to lunch at the Hotel Schweizerhof
] in Davos, Switzerland, and discovered why America and Europe
] are at odds. At the bottom of the lunch menu was a list of the
] countries that the lamb, beef and chicken came from. But next
] to the meat imported from the U.S. was a tiny asterisk, which
] warned that it might contain genetically modified organisms —
] G.M.O.'s.
]
] My initial patriotic instinct was to order the U.S. beef and
] ask for it "tartare," just for spite. But then I and my lunch
] guest just looked at each other and had a good laugh. How
] quaint! we said. Europeans, out of some romantic rebellion
] against America and high technology, were shunning U.S.-grown
] food containing G.M.O.'s — even though there is no scientific
] evidence that these are harmful. But practically everywhere we
] went in Davos, Europeans were smoking cigarettes — with their
] meals, coffee or conversation — even though there is
] indisputable scientific evidence that smoking can kill you. In
] fact, I got enough secondhand smoke just dining in Europe last
] week to make me want to have a chest X-ray.

You meme snatcher ;-)

RE: Ah, Those Principled Europeans