"I forbid, therefore I am."



http://www.conspiracy-times.com/content/view/178/50/

Snips:

.... it seems only a matter of time before Brussels' compulsion to control everything is subjected to a nonsense standard, which would recognize anything that causes 25 of 100 adult EU citizens to shake their heads in disbelief for a period of at least 30 seconds as general lunacy.

... Anxious to dispel their image of bureaucrats well removed from the realities of daily life, the EU Commission, presided over by José Manual Barroso, seek to portray themselves as the guardian angels of Europe's citizens, the protectors of the old and the young, and the guarantors of a life free of danger.
 
... Under Paragraph 17, Section 1 of the Animal Food Hygiene Regulation, "the sale of raw milk or cream to consumers is prohibited."

Only in exceptional cases are dairy farmers permitted to sell untreated milk to customers, and only when they are in compliance with a long list of detailed requirements regulating everything from the condition of the floors in the farmer's milking room to the material used to make his doors. Of course, the dairy farmer mustn't forget to post a warning sign that reads "Raw milk - Boil before consuming" in a "visible and legible manner at the selling location."

..."Each citizen is a consumer," the EU Commission postulates. Each consumer is a potential entity requiring protection. And because everyone knows that we are what we eat, the logical conclusion is that protection begins well before our food reaches the supermarket.

... Under the rules, health-related information in the future will only be allowed if it appears on a long list the EU is currently compiling. Advertising copywriters will no longer rely on their creativity, but will be required to select the appropriate expressions from the EU's central list ("boosts immunity," "calcium is important for healthy bones"). Newspeak, in short, has arrived.

... "What we really lack," says Alexander Radwan, a member of the European Parliament and Germany's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), "is a guideline to protect us from the EU's consumer advocates."

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Posted: Fri - November 30, 2007 at 08:03 PM            

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