youngian
Thursday 9th May 2013 2:30pm [Edited]
1,727 posts
Quote: billwill @ May 7 2013, 7:22 PM BST
Government bureaucracy gone insane
Apparently the EU commission wants to control all seeds and gardeners and make it illegal to develop new varieties of plants and vegetables.
http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html
Mind you I do not know if this source of news is reliable.
Bill
The lifecycle of a European Commission news story-
Brussels based freelance stringer attends obscure press conference or browses a dull technical document that no-one outside the relevant industry has the faintest interest.
Invent an exaggerated conclusion designed to upset people who have zero knowledge of the issue in the first place
Sell it to a tabloid whose hacks have no clue how to check it even if they wanted to.
Hack acquires MP soundbite from attention seeking backbench idiot: "This attempt to ban jam jars is Brussels political correctness gone mad."
Story quoted by the BBC and therefore becomes a fact.
Dimwits leave message board comments and rant on Radio Bloke phone-in about leaving the EUSSR.
Commission press office issues turgid statement no-one reads explaining why the story was bollocks in the first place.