it is one thing to get shot and killed during a drug transaction; it is another to die from eating beef. In point of fact, we acted to bar imports of beef from England, Canada (and I recall, Argentina) when there were reports of contaminated beef--so it would hadly be unexpected to find that other nations are now barring our beef exports. So far as trying to get us embroiled in a poltical battle my response is "where's the beef?"