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To understand how irrational the voters decision is, consider this story: here in Czech Republic, many people now "oppose the dictate of the EU" because as a part of consumer protection scheme introduced by EU Czechia's favourite margarine brand had to change it's name from butter to margarine. Only butter products can be labeled butter now and this has become a fuel in the increase of eurosceptics. Fubar.

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That being said.. the fact that there are people in Brussels that probably spend hundreds if not thousands of man-hours figuring out what is butter and is not kinda illustrates what people don't like about the EU

I like having those regulations and the safety they provide, even if in many cases they might be too cautious. I don't trust companies, specially multinationals, to care for the consumers, their workers and the environment.

I'm glad I live in a society that is doing these things. A few spend a lot of time on a specific problem so the many don't need to do all of that work over and over every day in an inefficient and ineffective way. Consumers can focus on buying and the government should be ensuring a fair and accurate marketplace.

So, a company producing margarine was told it could no longer call its product "butter"? I don't have a problem with that.

Only butter products can be labeled butter

Oh dear lord, what has this world come to...

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