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During a time when we’re watching our use of resources and starting to worry about how much longer we can push our life on the planet, wasting product like this
by culopatin 4y ago
During a time when we’re watching our use of resources and starting to worry about how much longer we can push our life on the planet, wasting product like this over a stupid word is the dumbest news I’ve read in a while and it’s bad PR for France, at least from my perspective.
- gnicholas 4y agoIt does seem strange that they wouldn't have just shipped it to another jurisdiction where it could have been consumed.
- newaccount74 4y agoShipping costs are probably higher than the value of the beer.
- gnicholas 4y agoCould have just been kept on the originating side of the border? Or would it have to leave Europe? I’m not familiar with the details of these regulations.
- newaccount74 4y agoProtected declaration of origin is EU wide. The beer would probably have to go back where it came from. I'm assuming it arrived either on a port or an airport, so it would be expensive to ship it back.
- toast0 4y agoThey said they destroyed it in an environmentally sensitive way --- could have been a party for customs workers?
- sgtnoodle 4y agoGlobal beer production is something like 180 gigaliters per year.