I don't have the slightest problem with you holding another opinion and am happy that you believe your diet is healthier. Many diets are healthy, but an awful lot more than just diet is needed to ensure good health. The is nothing intrinsically unhealthy about processed meat, or any other food. The importance of processing is to minimise waste and to ensure the world gets fed. There is nothing more unhealthy than hunger. Factory farming is another issue entirely which brings in all kinds of separate arguments.

Not everything I disagree with is nonsense, but some things are. Hanssen's book being one. It was predicated on a completely false assertion which did a huge amount of harm, causing a generation untold anxiety about the food they ate.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Well, fancy.

Just a Mickey Mouse vote to help the French emasculate their farmers for a while.

Arable or Livestock farmers?

The biggest issue in rules like this isn't the over reach of the EU but its the amount the EU spend debating this crap.

As with wonkie veg, I couldn't really care less about the outcome, the question is about how much time and effort it took some of the highest paid politicians in the continent to discuss it.