Ritualistic

I was just checking out this site called called “News of the WEIRD - Current News” and it reported about a man who had to throw away fruit because it didn’t meet the regulations of the EU. Here is exactly what it says:

“WEEK OF JULY 27, 2008 - LEAD STORY
The European Union allows fruits and vegetables to be sold only in prescribed sizes and colors (such as its 35 pages of regulations governing 250 varieties of the apple, or rules that cucumbers must be straight and bananas curved). In June, British marketer Tim Down complained that he was forced to discard 5,000 kiwi fruit because they were 1 millimeter in diameter too small and one-fourth ounce too light. (It is illegal even to give them away, as that would undermine the market price.) “Improvements” in the EU system continue, according to a July Washington Post dispatch from Brussels: Despite 10 pages of standards on the onion and 19 amendments, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture recently issued a report urging further refinements, using 29 pages and 43 photographs. [Washington Post, 7-8-08; Daily Mail (London), 6-27-08]”

And people praise the European Union, where it’s illegal to even give fruit away because it isn’t the right size?

I realize that this website may not be the most credible, so true to form I Google’d it for the more official stories found here and here. You could probably find more articles on it as well.

Look at what one of the articles said:

“EU rediscovers taste for bendy cucumbers
July 20, 2008, Marie Woolf, Whitehall Editor
The commission, in a step backed by the UK, will this week attempt to reform strict rules governing standards on such matters as the colour of leeks, the bendiness of cucumbers and the shape of carrots.” (For more, click the two articles linked above).

So now they are reconsidering taking back their strict laws in what a fruit should look like, should bend like, because of the world hunger crisis. And when that’s resolved? What then? Why even make these regulations in the first place?

And even a better question, why regulate food in such a way like that? The state is not our parents.

And I know in the grand scheme of things someone regulating the “color of an orange” is not going to matter one way or another, but if they’re regulating that little thing what ELSE are they going to regulate?

This is government control of in it’s purest form. And I fear America will follow right in the EU’s footsteps — especially with the NAU (North American Union), even though FOR NOW it seems to be put to a halt:

Lou Dobbs Reports SPP May Be Dead 07/29/08

But notice how I put for now.

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