On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:05:03 -0700 (PDT), s_pickle2001@yahoo.com
wrote:
>On Mar 27, 10:04 am, Norbert Liecfeldt wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:44:36 +0000, Les Invalides wrote:
>> > judith posted
>> >>None of this says that cucumbers or bananas must be straight.
>>
>> > Of course not. But neither did the newspapers claim that it did; just
>> > that there was a new European law that was going to be a bloody nuisance
>> > to retailers by imposing stupid rules on the straightness or curvature
>> > of bananas etc. As Gaz has already said, many of the newspapers reported
>> > it unfairly; but in essence the story was true. The EC *did* impose such
>> > regulations.
>>
>> That's the essence of the free market. If you want to avoid unfair
>> competition, e.g. allow the Dutch to market their inferior cucumbers as
>> "extra-class" in the UK when UK producers might have to follow the more
>> stringent UK regulations (whatever they might have been) and Class
>> equivalent cucumbers as Class 2, then you need a EU wide regulation.
>> Unless you want to bring everything down to the lowest common
>> denominator, which would be an alternative. Or stop the free flow of
>> goods, which would be another alternative.
>
>Alternatively, you could let the producers and buyers of cucumbers
>come of with their own classification without EU intervention, but
>that would not be the Brussles way and would not help keep eurocrats
>in their jobs.
and perhaps you can explain how the thousands of producers and buyers
of cucumbers would actually be co-ordinated in doing so; or even
explain why they never did so in the past? |