Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Who do you look up to, morrons?

There is indeed a need for regulation all over the European Union and I understand the measures they are trying to implement in the food sector. But for crying out loud, why do we not do things gradually? It is such a stupid thing to pass a law that will not allow shepherds to sell their dairy products without approved packing and other restraints. It is a stupid thing to do such a thing all of a sudden. You need to create frameworks that would allow them to adapt to such legislation. You need to create a new market for their products, give them support in making the needed changes. Now how is somebody who all his life has been moving around the country for sheep grazing make business? How is he going to contract some firm to pack his products? Who will transport it? How to cover the costs? And moreover, how would he know the market for the all new shiny products? It is something that shepherds cannot dream over one night. There is such an increasing interest in the European Union for traditional food. The Spanish and French are adding each year more of their traditional products to a list of protected recipes, but Romania has not even registered one. I heard they are working now towards doing that for a type of jam. Well, how hard can that be? If they are really committed to preserving the cultural heritage and encouraging small organic producers to go on larger markets, the state bodies should adopt measures to encourage that. Screw just lining up to EU legislation, get over yourselves and do it in a sustainable way.
Talking about sustainability, guess who's holding stocks in the Rosia Montana Gold Mining Company? The very own George Soros. And of course, CEU students are activists of sustainability. My ass. There is an obvious link between the new government and the increase in the price of the mining corporation's stock. I believe we can call that an association, to say the least. Why does everything have to be so freaking neo-liberal-oriented in some key parts of the Soros gospel that they brainwash us to spread around the world, and how can they preach sustainability at the same time? Are natural resources such as mountain landscape and wildlife really less precious than gold? Is our health less precious than expensive stock trade? Who do we want to be? The US drinking hormone-filled milk, moving mountains from one side to the other just to get the gold out cheaper? Is it really sustainability that the EU is trying to approach and why doesn't Romania understand from time to time that the immense richness it has is not in the freaking mountains full of gold, but on them, in the woods, the air and especially the wonderful people that still inhabit them? Now I'm really pissed.

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