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"EU claims to follow the precautionary principle but actually follows a principle of bureaucratic whim "
In truth so does the US, but with a very stark difference. The EU system is populated by bureaucrats who are essentially permanent. The US system has two populations of regulators. At the top you have political appointees who blow with the current political winds. Under them you have the career scientists and lawyers who do the real work and are there administration after administration and who slowly accumulate mountains of actual data on subjects they regulate. Short term the political people do influence decisions via veto powers over the recommendations of the career people. A great example that has been all over the press for quite a few years is the Keystone pipeline. Then we have an election and the new guy appoints people that reverse the last guys decision. This is not an argument that Keystone is right or wrong. It is just how our system works. Most such "split" decisions never get any press so you do not hear about them.
So, has bee keeping been hurt or benefited from our system? Likely both. I had long wondered how in the world oxalic acid got registered for use on mites. I learned the answer recently. Mrs Obama put the heat on EPA to register it and they acted. That action was in violation of many of their normal rules that I had never seen them violate before. Yet, without political pressure to violate those rules we would not have a legal way to use oxalic acid on our hives.
I usually delete the footer on my emails to keep Arron happy. I am leaving it this time as it seems on topic to me.
Dick
HL Mencken said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "
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