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The Press: New rules forbid dog bones

Dogs in mid Wales have a bone to pick with officials after they ordered butchers not to give customers bones to take home for their pets. Ceredigion County Council has written to shop owners about a new European Union directive restricting the supply of bones and trimmings, which have for years been regarded as a canine treat.
(BBC News Online, 25 May 2004)

The Facts:

The EU Animal By-Products Regulation was adopted in 2002 to help ensure the safe and traceable disposal of animal parts not intended for human consumption, in order to reduce the risk of further agricultural crisis such as BSE and Foot-and-mouth. It does not stop a butcher supplying bones to individual dog owners for their pet’s consumption, provided the bone has not already been thrown away.

Notes:

Once again we see the EU being untruthful:

Butchers always put their off cuts discards etc. into a storage receptacle to be collected and discarded, this ruling means that once they have done so they cannot use it for anything else as it has been designated rubbish.

This is the same sort of directive that prevents rubbish being used for electricity production see Booker for one example:

At Daldowie outside Glasgow, Scottish Water has a £65 million plant turning 50,000 tons of sewage sludge each year - nearly half of Scotland’s entire sewage residue - into pellets. For four years this has been feeding Scottish Power’s giant 2,400-megawatt power station at Longannet in Fife with a “carbon-neutral” equivalent of 42,000 tons of coal, enough to provide electricity for 30,000 homes. Now, by a decision which is the subject of a legal action awaiting judgment in the Scottish courts, this whole process is threatened with disaster.

Last winter the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) ruled that the sewage pellets were not “fuel”, but “waste”. When the EC Waste Incineration Directive (WID), 2000/76 comes into law next year, Scottish Power will no longer be allowed to use the pellets to make electricity.