The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has certainly no valid reason to be irked by the allegedly strict safety rules and regulations imposed by the Philippine Department of Agriculture on meat and meat products imported from the United States -- as reported in a broadsheet this morning. That is even as, truth to tell, we are still to hear of people's health and safety unduly endangered by meats we import from the US, as much as they are from those coming from China, for example.
The only little irony here is that government doesn't seem to be equally alarmed by the "bothca" or double-dead meat that we have to contend with very frequently in our midst and times. That reminds me of the saying, "kita ang butas ng karayom, hindi ang butas ng palakol." The "pilosopos" amongst us will certainly retort: "But of course, because the axe's hole is concealed by its handle!" Fine. Allow me, then, to quote another adage: "Go farther and fare worse!"
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