In South Australia, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made it an offence to light a fire in an outdoor fireplace for the purpose of cooking your food from November to May. This sort of ruins things for scouts cooking sausages on a stick or putting potatoes in the embers. It also spoils the tastes of my wood-fired barbie, which tastes infinitely better than anything cooked on a gas hotplate.
My question is this: I would have thought that it is a fundamental human right to cook your food by whatever means are at hand, provided, of course, that it is safe to do so. I know there are alternatives to wood fires, however the means of cooking my food should be up to me.
I'm almost certain that somewhere in the United Nations Treaties, or some part of natural law, there must be a right for an individual to cook their food - if so, then this rule of the EPA would be immoral, if not illegal.
My question is this: I would have thought that it is a fundamental human right to cook your food by whatever means are at hand, provided, of course, that it is safe to do so. I know there are alternatives to wood fires, however the means of cooking my food should be up to me.
I'm almost certain that somewhere in the United Nations Treaties, or some part of natural law, there must be a right for an individual to cook their food - if so, then this rule of the EPA would be immoral, if not illegal.
