Posted on 05/26/2004 12:35:37 PM PDT by ambrose
This is LONDON
26/05/04 - News and city section
EU bans giving bones to dog owners
By Nigel Rosser, Evening Standard
Butchers are being threatened with fines if they give bones away to dog owners.
They are being sent letters telling them that a new European directive bans the traditional practice.
In future, Britain's 10,000 butchers will have to pay for the bones to be incinerated rather than hand them free to customers for their pets.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs today confirmed the Brussels ban.
It said the bones are now considered "waste" which must be properly disposed of.
A spokesman said: "Customers can take bones away with them when they buy the deboned meat if it is for human consumption.
"But if the bone is waste or for pet food then it's a byproduct - and cannot be passed to the public."
Aberystwyth butcher Aled Morgan, 35, one of the first to receive a warning letter, said: "I just don't see where the EU is coming from. It's just going to cost butchers at least £2,000 a year."
Local dog owner Martin Swanson, 32, said: "It seems to me to be another barmy EU directive."
Yeah, yeah, the bone's for me. Nudge-nudge. Wink-wink.
This is insane.
Sure, to make a stock! Gotta brown bones to make a good stock.
Is this a source like BrokenNews? This is a joke, right?
The EU is as useless as the UN.
We are from the EU and we are here to he'p you.
Like DOGGY-BAGS are for my dog? here in the USA...............
Nick, nack, patty whack, give your dog a plate of quiche instead.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - the EU will become one of the darkest stains of human History.
Heck, just tell the butcher that you want the bone left in, take it home and de-bone it yourself, and then give it to your dog.
From Merriam-Webster online:
Main Entry: 1barmy
Pronunciation: 'bär-mE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): barm·i·er; -est
: full of froth or ferment
American translation: nutso
When bones are banned, only criminals will have bones...
What is it with the EU? They want to get their hands on EVERY ASPECT of daily life over there. And it can happen here...we need smaller gubmint - not larger. And the best way to do this is to starve the bastards out. Lower taxes...lower expenditures...SSZ
A spokesman said: "Customers can take bones away with them when they buy the deboned meat if it is for human consumption.
"But if the bone is waste or for pet food then it's a byproduct - and cannot be passed to the public."
OK, fine, but what if you buy, say, a whole chicken, roast it, and eat the meat--what do you do with the bones? Do you have to sort them out and put them in a special receptacle for the trash man to pick up? And what if you don't? Brought up to the World Court on charges of Crimes Against Humanity? (You laugh now...)
That's the EU.
I recall a piece on a UK butcher a few years ago that still sold product by the pound. That, under the metric reqs, was illegal.
I think he complied with the metric labelling, but still sold it by the pound if that's what the customer wanted.
He blamed the loss of sovereignty on Tony Blair who "wants to be the EU president".
Anyway, the butcher was getting legal help from some anti-EU group.
barmy EU directive = friggen insane,idiotic,something only a booger eating moron would want to create ! I hope this simple yet functional definition helps clarify matters for you.
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