Here is the actual list of myths with some text on each one. [1] This gets posted on HN a lot, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually clicks through and reads the debunking? Only about a 30 - 40% are actually false (eg. "No EU plan to ban Union Flag from British meat packs"), the majority are true, and the "debunking" takes the form of explaining why it's a good thing (eg. "EC plan to ban noisy toys"…
That’s not a distinction without a difference it’s literally the only thing relevant to fruit and veg classification.
Obviously Supermarket always buys classified fruit & veg (and did before the EU). And obviously in a common market those classifications must be the same. A ban on ugly bananas is just that, a ban on supermarkets selling anything under the top classification, or a classification that doesn’t allow the sale of lower grade at all. This isn’t it. No one bans anyone from selling 2nd grade fruit and the fruit isn’t classed as not for human consumption.
The whole ugly fruit movement where supermarkets now sell other grades is literally a response to this!
> No EU plan to ban Union Flag from British meat packs
I didn’t read the referenced article but surely flags are not only allowed but even encouraged on meat packaging? Obviously the flag must match the country of origin of the meat but if it does how can it be a problem?
If a manufacturer used a Union Jack or to sell Irish or Latvian meat I sure hope both local and EU law would object (regardless of whether that company had used it in its logo for 100s of years). Was that was happened? And was someone really upset about it?