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Any time you have food being labeled as something it is not, I think that's a very serious problem, regardless of any health benefits or taste. Is fraud OK if p
by Amezarak 10y ago
Any time you have food being labeled as something it is not, I think that's a very serious problem, regardless of any health benefits or taste. Is fraud OK if people don't know (almost everyone) and/or don't care (probably some) they're being deceived?
- jpttsn 10y agoPart of me feels this is less objectionable than other fraud. If customers pay a premium for olive oil, even though they don't know enough to tell the difference, I feel like the joke's on them. This is hard to justify, maybe I'm just a bad person. As a corollary, if someone told me I had been duped in some similar way (eg. my bourbon is not actually from Kentucky) I'd question/blame my own judgement. Why do I pay for something when I can't even tell there's a difference? Allergies are a separate matter, and I bet relevant labeling laws apply equally much, whatever you call the oil.
- vixen99 10y agoMany of us are a bit dumb when we start trying to be discriminating in the food and drink we consume. We won't get far in our culinary education if we're duped like this.
- jpttsn 10y agoAbsolutely. Yet in some cases perhaps we're so easily duped only because what we're learning to distinguish is not such a strong signal; it could be an education in overfitting. https://xkcd.com/915/ https://xkcd.com/915/