Allister rejects EU ban on British Mince
02 April 2008
Traditional Unionist MEP Jim Allister has vowed to fight against an EU Regulation requiring meat used to make mince to be cut less than six days after an animal’s slaughter.
The MEP said,
“I utterly reject this latest interference by EU bureaucrats on an integral aspect of British culture, namely our right to consume mince from beef hanged for between 14 to 28 days according to tradition. While the new regulations are apparently designed to offer added consumer health protection to French consumers of raw steak tartare, a blanket ban on matured mince is without scientific basis or logic.”
“While the new rules are set to be implemented imminently, it is ultimately British consumers who will suffer, not only in mince being less flavoursome and tender, but in the added production costs which will inevitably lead to higher prices.”
“This is simply the latest manifestation of a European nanny Superstate, where bureaucracy is employed to erode many of the liberties and traditions we in the United Kingdom have enjoyed for centuries. Last year, the milk pinta came under attack by the men in grey suits, I suspect the definition of ‘mince’ is the latest victim for the sake of ‘an ever closer Union’.
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