Hallam-Baker wrote:
Regulation is not necessarily anti-commerce. UK beef farmers would be better off today if there had been more regulation, a weak "free-market" attitude to public health has destroyed the entire industry.
Really? Nothing to do with EC MPs preventing them from selling the stuff to willing buyers outside of the EC then? Do you really believe the government "knows better" than the farmers? Do you believe regulation is free? And how can you honestly call the UK agricultural industry a "free-market"? Gary -- "People who love the law and sausages should watch neither being made" - Otto Von Bismarck pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06