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."
Simple solution. Free "soup" bones.
Translation, anyone?
ADC stole it, too. I heard it over 30 years ago as a kid.
Dog owners?!?! In the EU???
That makes it perfectly clear, thanks.
,,, apathy like that makes it so easy for Brussels to win on anything. I'd love to see the size of the library that houses EU rules and regulations. What a fascist nightmare it's becoming.
>>What is it with the EU? They want to get their hands on EVERY ASPECT of daily life over there.<<
Sounds positively islamic.
A modern Gulliver would not have to sail off to a distant sea to find a delusional world for satire. A short hop across the Channel would do just as well.
It sounds as though the EU has fallen into the hands of the "Neo-Cons." This makes as much sense as "Democracy in the Third World." But then, the European Left has been trying to "catch up" with the Third World for some time now. ("Catch up" being applied here to those with no comprehension of direction.)
Will no one reawaken sanity in the West?!
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This shows how inane, degenerate and decadent the western European states have become. They are tossing themselves as a bone to the Muslims while acting on nonse like this while the wolf is not just in the door, but snarling in the nursery.
If this were the U.S., I'd say the rule was paid for by the animal waste disposal industry, but then there would at least be a point to the law. The EU just does this stuff because they're stupid and forget that real people live real lives way down there below the clouds.
Next: Banning the "extra" for kids at German butchers under business competition laws.
Well, call me just amazed. Love your tagline, and agree with it.
They're coming from hell with pointers from it's more well known residents...Satan, Stalin, Moa, Marx, Lenin, G. Kahn...
Sure does sound like a Monty Python sketch. The Ministry of Silly Bones anyone?
It sounds as though they defined "by-product" first, as anything not for human consumption, and then realized bones for dogs fell into that category. The English will go wild over this and demand it be exempted, don't worry.
But the barmy EU will have the answer to that. It will become illegal in the EU for an owner to give a bone to a dog.
The EU doesn't know what they are doing. Typical.
This is a manifestation of the glorious model that Polly Toynbee expects to inspire EUropeans to bond together in opposition to the, er, "repressive" United States?
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