2 ms·
> The only way would be to entirely control food production from the very start in an industrialised and verified way, no ? I'm not sure whether you are aware
by cookiengineer 5y ago
> The only way would be to entirely control food production from the very start in an industrialised and verified way, no ?
I'm not sure whether you are aware that the way you described it, it actually is in reality. So the sarcastic approach is a little misplaced here.
There are literally institutions that random select tests of food products to ensure their quality. If it's off or outside law regulated guidelines, the manufacturer loses the license to sell it.
In the European Union all recipes have to be approved before they are allowed to go on the market. There are even a few prototype cities (e.g. Hassloch in Germany) to test products before they roll out officially. So it literally is an end-to-end, industrialized, testchain.
The difference here is: It's not the manufacturer that controls itself. It's an independent agency or research institute.
And that is literally what OP was complaining about.
- jcelerier 5y ago> I'm not sure whether you are aware that the way you described it, it actually is in reality. Note that I'm not talking about industrialised production, but about people selling their fruits at the side of a road, who may not even be farmers but just have a large garden ; we had only 3/4 fruit trees when growing up but it'd often make enough to give kilograms of apricots & such can be given away or sold for a few euros at the local fair. I don't remember anyone getting UE approval to be able to do that, any more than a kid needs UE approval to sell lemonade.
- cookiengineer 5y agoI think Apple (Computers) can't be compared with organic food because Apple's business and operations model implies that everything is protected intellectually with patents. Protecting your manufacturing process via patents implies that "people at the side of the road" don't know how to make it. Otherwise the patent would be nullified. To stay with the metaphor I think we'd have to classify Apple (Computers) as a processed food manufacturer and not the same was as organic food, and also not as something that other people can easily grow themselves in their backyard. That would be probably something like a USB cable or maybe a touchpad or something, but even that far outreaches the knowledge of the general population that are not specialized in the area. Planting a seed and taking care of a plant to grow it, is pretty much doable by a child in comparison.
- foepys 5y agoFor an example see this article, worth reading: https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-in... The sequel: https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/02/de-cecco-bucatini-shortage-interview.html https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/02/de-cecco-bucatini-shortag...
- yeahforsureman 5y agoI would not recommend this article if you can't handle a load of New York pasta nerdiness before getting to the SAUCE, capisci?