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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:47:49 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
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anton wrote:
"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Oxymel of Squill" writes:
very dangerous advice if the word of Brussels is to be believed.
The EU recently declared the teabag (a construction od leaves
and
paper) to be an 'animal product' and banned Cardiff Council from
adding them to its composting process
http://www.independence.org.uk/abc_n...hp?t=1&id=1169

Not at all. That is nonsense perpetrated by the Little
Englanders,
whose only skill appears to be in persuading the (admittedly
stupid)
UK population to believe their lies.

What precisely are you asserting is the lie? That teabags
contaminated by milk are classified as an animal product, and
cannot
be low-temperature composted?

No, the way that clarification was hidden from the casual reader.
This may or may not have been deliberate misrepresentation: I don't
know, so I won't call it a flat-out lie for now. The way it was said
that the EU banned Cardiff Council from doing something, when it was
the Council's own decision. A daft-sounding, and pretty nearly
unworkable, but actually reasonable, decision. I agree that it was
based on an EU rule, so I suppose you could call it an EU ban; but
these things can always be presented in either a neutral way, or one
loaded to one side or the other.


If you take a further look, and bother to find out about the
reasons
for the rule (which isn't what is said), you will find that it is
rooted in an attempt to get particularly unscientific and
deliberately negligent counties (like the UK) to avoid creating
another epidemic like the foot and mouth one.

More exactly, it would be countries with particularly unscientific
and
deliberately negligent governments (like the current UK one).

Not just the current one: all British Governments are like that.

Yes.

/All/ Britsh govts deliberately negligent? Only one government has ever
allowed f & m to spread, avoiding calling the army in, because they wanted
to hold to their schedule for an early election.


The rule might be ridiculous, but the
fact that such rules are needed because we can't trust our own
government to look after our own interests is worse.

-and the smokescreen laid down by europhiliacs attempting to deny
that
kitchen refuse was banned from being composted would feature where
in
your weltanschauung?

What is banned is the production of unsterilised compost.


More or less true. What's actually banned is spreading it on land. So
millions of householders are breaking the law.

No, it could be argued that the smokescreen is laid by Europhobes.
The OP, for example, was given the impression that tea-bags, as such,
were classified as an animal product: this impression is false.
That's a feature of my weltschmerz.

I'm not with you.
'The reason, according to the EU's Animal By-Products Order 1999, is that
teabags, and indeed used coffee filters, could have come in contact with
contaminated milk'

Seems a pretty clear statement. Which word don't you like?

It's interesting the way that a google search for this sort of
disinformation/nonesense usually leads to a Rupert Murdoch
publication.

It's more interesting that pro-EU propaganda fails when the legislation
itself is actually unearthed.
--
Anton