Comments on: Banned by the Eurocrats . . . kiwi fruit just 1mm too small http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/06/banned-by-the-eurocrats-kiwi-fruit-just-1mm-too-small/ the Daily Irrelevant Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Roland Hesz http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/06/banned-by-the-eurocrats-kiwi-fruit-just-1mm-too-small/#comment-26124 Roland Hesz Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:26:57 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=24228#comment-26124 I wonder what is the use of the EU? Honestly... I wonder what is the use of the EU? Honestly…

]]> By: John http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/06/banned-by-the-eurocrats-kiwi-fruit-just-1mm-too-small/#comment-26110 John Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:42:47 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=24228#comment-26110 This kind of stupidity is nothing new with EU regulations. I remember arguments over the exact curvature required before bananas can be called that, an attempt to re-define chocolate so that certain brands that were selling well would be forced to drop that word from their product names, and a case where a candy store set up in a historically accurate recreation in the UK was forced to use metric units, even though that was not accurate for the period being recreated. The EU needs to be put back in its place: a trading agreement, not a federal government. They're just a bunch of power crazed politicians trying to take more and more control. The same arguments between federal and state governments happens here in the US all the time too; that should be enough of a warning about how bad an idea it is to even have a European parliament and government. Unless of course you're a politician :-( This kind of stupidity is nothing new with EU regulations. I remember arguments over the exact curvature required before bananas can be called that, an attempt to re-define chocolate so that certain brands that were selling well would be forced to drop that word from their product names, and a case where a candy store set up in a historically accurate recreation in the UK was forced to use metric units, even though that was not accurate for the period being recreated. The EU needs to be put back in its place: a trading agreement, not a federal government. They’re just a bunch of power crazed politicians trying to take more and more control.

The same arguments between federal and state governments happens here in the US all the time too; that should be enough of a warning about how bad an idea it is to even have a European parliament and government. Unless of course you’re a politician :-(

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