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This sounds a lot like that herb ban that didn't happen.

 George Spiggott wrote:
This sounds a lot like that herb ban that didn't happen.

Hey, we're still trying to get rid of that over here!

 Mr Hyena wrote:
Only a hint to the growing inevitability of the rise of the next fascist regime...

By this, I assume you mean UKIP, who will be voted into power by the mindless people who believe EU Troops will be razing their gardens and building houses for Bulgarians and Romanians in its place.

 dæl wrote:
This is a very bad misrepresentation of exactly what the legislation is.

Here is the press release covering it.
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/pressroom/animal-plant-health_en.htm

It's intent is the reduction of of legislation covering the food chain from 70 pieces to 5. Gardeners and microenterprises are also exempt from the legislation. And I don't see where it says anything about things being banned, only that they need be registered.

What's that. A piece of legislation was lied about on some shitbox website that makes up crazy nonsense all the time, and then someone posted that to Dakka without questioning it at all?

Surely not. Surely that is not a thing that has happened at all.


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 Howard A Treesong wrote:
The EU continue their fight against GM cro then, and potentially pull in the products of other breeding strategies. This is why research is falling behind the US and China, etc. Instead of allowing anti-GM scaremongering to set the agenda we really need to grasp these technologies and invest now to ensure our food security, or in a few years we'll be paying through the nose to cope with shortages.

This isn't an anti-GM measure. It's an effort to properly register and record exactly what each GM crop is with a more efficient and effective procedure, which far from being a crackdown is instead exactly the structure needed for the GM foods industry.