But trav, it's rules like this that will give the EU a global competitive advantage!
(BTW, you really shouldn't give a dog a bone. The splinters may lodge themselves internally.)
More liberal nonsense
EU bans giving dog a bone
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By JOHN COLES
BARKING mad EU officials have banned butchers from giving customers bones for their dogs.
New Brussels rules class bones as a waste by-product and butchers must pay for them to be incinerated.
Britain?s 10,000 butchers are being sent letters by local councils warning them they face FINES if they pass left-over bones to pet-owners in the traditional way.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004242146,00.html
But trav, it's rules like this that will give the EU a global competitive advantage!
(BTW, you really shouldn't give a dog a bone. The splinters may lodge themselves internally.)
I'm curious as to how this is ""liberal". Seems more along the traditional rule-bound tight assed conservative line.
(I agree with reason about bones in general, though if they are hardened, by boiling I think, then splintering isn't a problem. You do have an increased risk for broken teeth with the hard bones though as they are like rocks.)
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am again thanking all the deities that Pi?a was not in charge of evolution.Originally posted by Pi?a:
(I agree with reason about bones in general, though if they are hardened, by boiling I think, then splintering isn't a problem. You do have an increased risk for broken teeth with the hard bones though as they are like rocks.)
I'm not a big dog person, although I do like other people's canines. I understand bone splinters and I further understand that cats SHOULD.NOT.BE.ALLOWED.OUTSIDE.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am again thanking all the deities that Pi?a was not in charge of evolution.Originally posted by Pi?a:
(I agree with reason about bones in general, though if they are hardened, by boiling I think, then splintering isn't a problem. You do have an increased risk for broken teeth with the hard bones though as they are like rocks.)
I'm not a big dog person, although I do like other people's canines. I understand bone splinters and I further understand that cats SHOULD.NOT.BE.ALLOWED.OUTSIDE.
Gae
I'm not sure I take your meaning. Were you commenting on my post or just rambling off into the ether?
(Oh by the way, Trav is posting those pictures again. This time you're not wearing any panties, thought the T-shirt is kinda strange.)
I agree that it's probably not the wisest thing to give a bone to a dog for the health concerns mentioned. That said, it's also unhealthy to have to pass legislation for it.
In my previous life in the maritime world, I was involved in a case where a seaman died when he fell off a barge. Seemed he slipped on some excess grain on the gunwale.
It used to be, when you loaded a barge with grain, you could take a hose and wash off the excess into the river. It kept the deck clean, and the fish loved it.
Of course, that wasn't good enough for the justify-my-existence crowd in Washington. And so they passed a law that, if you washed grain into the river, you were, in fact, "polluting."
No one likes to get fined, so they simply stopped washing the barges. Which meant the grain sat there, it eventually got wet and became as slick as ice, and then deckhands slip in it and fall, sometimes with fatal results.
I would hope the bone-ban would not be so dramatic, but until someone slows this crap down, we are heading towards a time when we, individually, will be fined everytime we exhale because carbon dioxide is a "pollutant." (and methane, for those who've spent too much time with the beans)
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