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wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:47:49 -0000, "Mike Lyle" wrote: anton wrote: "Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... 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 |
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