EU orders horsemeat and chips in equine passport scheme

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James Le Cuirot

Passports for donkeys? #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 11:57 GMT

Those Guernseymen have figured out how to leave the island then?

(eh, local joke)

Sordid Details

What the f$%k is wrong with these people? #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 11:57 GMT

Horses, sheep and goats? Doesn't anyone on Le Continent eat cow any more? Why single them out for special treatment?

Frank Gerlach

Cool down Tommy #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 11:57 GMT

I just think it is a waste of money. Police states don't need chipped people.

The Austrian nut had people (jews, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled) tatooed with a serial number before gassing them.

Paris, because she probably has a unique tatoo somewhere on her body.

Trevor Watt

Great Headline! #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 11:57 GMT

It got my digestive jucies going. Now I just have to go over the chanel and get some horseburgers!

TeeCee

Knackers yard+Darwin= #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 12:22 GMT

Evolution says that we should see a new trend in equine behaviour in the next few generations, Horses that know how to destroy their identification papers and build EMP devices to burn out ID chips.

In a couple of hundred years, human society will be returned to the Dark Ages, overrun by hordes of stateless, EMP-equipped SuperHorses.

The one with the packet of French sausages in the pocket please.

Dale

ObTerrorism joke #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 12:22 GMT

Donkey terrorism effectively neutered. I feel safer already. Bring on the ID cards.

Rob Elliott

British horse meat #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 12:56 GMT

Why don't the british eat horses? I sampled some on a trip to scandinavia a while back, it was great! at least as good as beef.

Robert Simmons

Should it not be #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 12:56 GMT

the (p)assport?

Mine's the one with an iPhone stitched in the fabric....

Anonymous Coward

Horseburger #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 14:49 GMT

Meh. Horse is decidedly inferior meat. IME, etc.

mark

nothing new my horse is chipped already #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 14:49 GMT

It's just the official linking to the passport direct thats new.

I was disappointed tho I got 20bhp more when I chipped my motorbike, all I got from my horse was an increased irrational fear of plastic bags.

Anonymous Coward

Bummer for the shielding #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 14:49 GMT

You'll need on *mother* of a tinfoil to protect the privacy of such a horse :-).

Dimitrov

Don't worry... #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 15:09 GMT

you Brits will get an opt-out of it, just like with 99% of everything else. Your asses - pardon, donkeys - are safe.

gareth

RE: Don't Worry #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 15:56 GMT

wait a minute don't you mean we brits will be the onlys ones who comply and every other EU country will just completly ignore the changes and carry on as they did befor like they have for every other eu ruling they don't like

for evidence of this have you see spanish/greek/italian/french constuction sites or look up british BSE beef ban and read the bit about franch not acepting imports of british beef after the eu ban was lifted

your statement about the working hours must be the one and only case of us fighting an eu law

Dr Dan Holdsworth

It already isn't working as planned #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:27 GMT

The way this has been implemented here at the moment is laughable. At present, you have to get a passport for your horse, but gypsies and travellers are exempted from this rule (mostly because enforcing it would be next to impossible).

Blatant illegal discrimination or good sense? You decide...

Anonymous Coward

cow chips #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:27 GMT

And buffalo chips, and road apples...oh I get it!

Michael

you're missing the point. #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:27 GMT

The main purpose of a "passport" is to record innoculations , veterinary treatment , drugs given, etc , including where it was pastured. I mean , even cows are chipped.. ( would you want to check if they grazed near windscale , did they come from the middle east -vaccination against bacillus anthracis in sheep, glanders in donkeys.... not to mention the huge differences in veterinary drug practices in europe as a whole.)

These measures make sense, unless you actually enjoy Roadkill Stew.

Icon , because of the H8 strain , currently in britain... could've been worse.

Schultz

Passports for donkeys? #

Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:27 GMT

Finally, after decades of inaction, they can track the malicious donkey Kong.

JJW Spencer

Respect for the beast. Bit like Hindus for cows #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 02:32 GMT

Where, in this wide world,

Can man find nobility without pride,

Friendship without envy,

Or beauty without vanity?

Here, where grace is laced with muscle,

And strength by gentleness confined.

He serves without servility.

He has fought without enmity.

There is nothing so powerful,

Nothing less violent.

There is nothing so quick,

Nothing more patient.

England's past has been borne on his back,

All our history is his industry.

We are his heirs,

He our inheritance.

The Horse

Florence Stanfield

EU SICK #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 12:35 GMT

I am a horse lover/owner and I really feel this is the worst part of the EU the horse is not a farm animal to plate up when the oversized belly asks for more.

If it was possible to inject every horse once without dmanaging its health but would render it useless for humans to eat I would gladly start this campaign going..

Hands of UK horses and donkeys they are gentle gients not beasts

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