EU BAN ON STICK INSECTS?

I don't trust politicians even when they are saying things with which I am in sympathy. However, if this next dstory is true it is appalling...

British pet lovers could be banned from keeping stick insects and other foreign creatures thanks to foreign sticklers in Brussels and proposed EU regulations on ‘invasive alien species’.

West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has pledged to stick it to the EU by fighting these preposterous plans, which could ban UK pet owners from keeping a stick insect.

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