Re: Wishful thinking does not make good policy
teh BSE scandal. The EU acted (corerectly) and applied the precautionary principle - no UK beef in the EU food chain until it can be proven to be safe.
Not quite so simple. The cause was contaminated food, meal that contained material from sheep with scrapie. EU banned the use of that meal but, as usual, left it up to individual countries to implement the ban. The UK banned all use immediately, farmers had to destroy any stocks. France simply banned new sales, allowing farmers to continue to feed existing contaminated stock to their animals. For some time after that ban, UK beef was probaby safer to eat than French beef.
And what does that have to do wth Brexit anyway, other than to show that the UK applies higher hygiene stadards than other EU countries (as it does for most consumer legislation)?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
