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Wrong shaped fruit
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 3:39PM GMT 12 Nov 2008
Carrots of any shape will be allowed as EU rules are scrapped Photo: Jonathan Buckley
Curvy cucumbers, knobbly carrots, wonky aubergines and ugly artichokes will go on sale in shops again after unpopular European Union rules dictating the size and shape of fruit and vegetables are scrapped.
But the notorious regulation which dictates that "straight" bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature" will remain in place because "no objections from banana growers, buyers, traders or consumers have been received regarding this requirement".
The rules are being dropped to cut red tape after growing protests from supermarkets, grocers, and farmers, including the Prince of Wales, who have been forced to throw away produce that does not measure up to exacting requirements drawn up by eurocrats decades ago.
An estimated 20 per cent of the British harvest is thrown away to comply with the EU regulations, rules which have been calculated to add as much as 40 per cent to the price of some vegetables, such as carrots.
"Nature does not always comply with a perfectly rounded apple and poker-straight carrot. People should be given the chance to buy odd-shaped fruit and veg as they taste just as good," said NFU Horticulture board chairman Richard Hirst.
Commission officials, long mocked in the press for rules setting the appropriate curvature of cucumbers, are also concerned that at a time of high food prices and economic recession fruit and vegetables are being wasted "just because they are the wrong shape".
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George the lobster gets new lease on life at 140
Updated Sat. Jan. 10 2009 4:37 PM ET
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A new lease on life -- at 140? That's what a Manhattan lobster got Friday, when the 10-kilogram crustacean named George was released from a swanky Park Avenue restaurant's tank.
City Crab and Seafood agreed to a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to let the lobster return to the Atlantic Ocean.
"We applaud the folks at City Crab and Seafood for their compassionate decision to allow this noble old-timer to live out his days in freedom and peace," said PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk.
Preventing Falls
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Morbid Wishes
Posted January 24, 2009 3:41 PM
Posted in death, funeral
Three friends die in a car accident and go to an orientation in heaven. They are all asked, "When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about you?"
The first guy says, "I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man."
The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference for the children of tomorrow."
The last guy replies, "I would like to hear them say, 'Look, he's moving!'"
Source: YellowBrix, UselessKnowledge.com
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