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EU bans giving bones to dog owners
This Is London ^ | 5.26.04

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."


TOPICS: Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barmy; nannystate
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1 posted on 05/26/2004 12:35:37 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: ambrose

Yeah, yeah, the bone's for me. Nudge-nudge. Wink-wink.


2 posted on 05/26/2004 12:37:03 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: ambrose
This is LONDON

This is insane.

3 posted on 05/26/2004 12:38:22 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: ladtx

Sure, to make a stock! Gotta brown bones to make a good stock.


4 posted on 05/26/2004 12:39:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: ambrose

Is this a source like BrokenNews? This is a joke, right?


5 posted on 05/26/2004 12:40:10 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: ambrose

The EU is as useless as the UN.


7 posted on 05/26/2004 12:41:08 PM PDT by FeliciaCat (Life is to short for ugly shoes.)
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To: ambrose
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
to get her dog a bone
Than the EU came over
and bent Hubbard over
and gave her a bone of their own.

paraphrased Andrew Dice Clay.
8 posted on 05/26/2004 12:42:16 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (There can be no détente with the theocracy.)
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To: ambrose

We are from the EU and we are here to he'p you.


9 posted on 05/26/2004 12:42:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: ladtx

Like DOGGY-BAGS are for my dog? here in the USA...............


10 posted on 05/26/2004 12:44:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Hillary has a Coke bottle figure....................................... 3 Liter.....................)
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To: ambrose

Nick, nack, patty whack, give your dog a plate of quiche instead.


11 posted on 05/26/2004 12:45:28 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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To: ambrose
barmy EU directive? Translation, anyone?
12 posted on 05/26/2004 12:49:28 PM PDT by j_tull ("I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.")
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To: ambrose

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - the EU will become one of the darkest stains of human History.


13 posted on 05/26/2004 12:50:44 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
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To: ambrose

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.


14 posted on 05/26/2004 12:53:41 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Der Elite Møøsënspåånkængrüppen ØberKømmändø (EMØØK))
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To: j_tull

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


15 posted on 05/26/2004 12:54:34 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: ambrose

When bones are banned, only criminals will have bones...


16 posted on 05/26/2004 12:57:00 PM PDT by Augie
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To: mollynme

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


17 posted on 05/26/2004 12:57:49 PM PDT by szweig
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It [The Department of Foo] 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."

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...)

18 posted on 05/26/2004 1:00:09 PM PDT by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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To: JennysCool
This is insane.

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.

19 posted on 05/26/2004 1:00:55 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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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.


20 posted on 05/26/2004 1:11:26 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 REACH OUT & THUMP SOMEONE .50BMG REACH OUT & CRUSH SOMEONE!)
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