Socialists HAVE to micromanage and control every single aspect of human existence. It's bred into the very marrow of their bones. The idea of leaving something up to voluntary action gives them blistering hives.

Engraved on their souls is their single, overriding law: "That which is not forbidden is compulsory." One corollary to this is that any reeking brain fart that comes into one of their heads soon becomes a stench in everyone's nostrils through legal force.

This kind of crap is not the exception for them--it's the rule:

The European Commission has certainly "gone to work on an egg". Its latest requirement is that farmers must stamp every egg they sell with their home address, the details of the hen which laid the egg, the method of production, the code for the producer-packer, and a sell-by date (News, Feb 7). Lest farmers grumble when the regulations come into effect next year, a Brussels bureaucrat chirped that labelling "will be a nice job for [their] wives".



Despite its concern for marital co-operation, Brussels is, once again, penalising small, independent producers, who must each now waste £5,000 on labelling equipment. These farmers produce the high quality, organic and free range eggs that consumers love, and do already stamp every box with the required information. The effect of this latest diktat will be, in many cases, to drive them out of business - not to mention endangering the age-old tradition of Easter-egg painting, for who can paint an egg covered in graffiti?

All this is to protect us from ever eating a rotten egg. Isn't the real rotten egg here the European Commission?



The European Union is being created and will be run by full-bore, hard-rock collectivists. In ten years, "I told you so" will pretty much be the mantra of the day.