Every egg to be labeled

[Maxim]

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".


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/02/08/dl0803.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/02/08/ixoplead.html

[Mister X]

What's next? Tattoing the same info on the chickens?
Bureacracy is an amazing thing.