“We feel the premises registration/animal ID issue is an act of the anti-Christ.”
A group of Old Order Amish farmers register their objection to the US National Animal Identification System, a Bush Administration initiative also dubbed “barnyard Big Brother” (Los Angeles Times, 14 January)
“The environmental problems caused by biofuels and also the social problems are bigger than we thought.”
Stavros Dimas, the European Union environment commissioner, admits that the EU did not foresee the problems raised by its policy of obtaining 10 per cent of Europe’s road fuels from plant matter (BBC News online, 14 January)
“This is exactly the sort of ethical, innovative and…
