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The best part is customers demanding their non-EU food be held to EU standards.
by sp332 3y ago
The best part is customers demanding their non-EU food be held to EU standards.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoWhy is that humorous? It seems entirely possible to want high quality foods, and also not to be part of the EU. The vast majority of the world falls in this category.
- sp332 3y agoIf Britain wants higher standards, they can address their own standards. This is like Americans complaining that their meat is not labelled according to Japanese regulations. It's just irrelevant.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIndeed, which is my point. The subtext to a lot of these comments seem to be "if you want food standards, you shouldnt have left" as if the choices are mutually exclusive.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoBrexit debacle is a real life comedy skit.
- Hamuko 3y agoI recently bought a new Dell monitor and I noticed that it had two sets of energy efficiency labels on the side of the box. It looked like this (except with a bit different numbers): https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1463961078593896450 https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1463961078593896450 I guess this is yet another great Brexit victory.
- mavhc 3y agoSurely the funniest bit about those labels is they're measuring kWh/1000 hours
- Hamuko 3y agoMakes them easier to parse for the average person than if they were in just raw kWh. A GU10 Philips Hue White Ambiance with a crap G efficiency rating is like 5 kWh/1000h.
- rich_sasha 3y agoGas pipelines, from memory, measure gas flow also in kWh/h. I mean, it would feel weird to measure flow of a material medium in Watts, but still...
- mavhc 3y agoMakes it easier to compare to electricity. If I'm attempting to switch to only electricity I can more easily see what I'll be needing, heat pump, battery size etc
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoIndeed, gaining that separate label with the Union Flag was totally worth the Brexit headaches. That, and now every widget I buy has the UKCA lable on it alongside the CE mark.
- M2Ys4U 3y agoSadly we're still in the tragedy stage of comedy = tragedy + time
- d--b 3y agoWhat’s weird is that they automatically assume it’s not! I’d assume it’s not part of a trade agreement or something. The brits just think “oh well, it’s probably the government colluding with big food companies to screw us over”. The worst part is that they’re probably right!
- kybernetikos 3y ago> The worst part is that they’re probably right! I don't think they are just yet, but I also assume that that is where this will all head.
- planede 3y agoDid food standards desync between the UK and EU considerably since Brexit? I doubt that loosening food standards happen in general, but I can imagine newer EU food standards that are not copied over to the UK.
- Mashimo 3y agoFrom the article: > Shoppers can rest assured, however, that the labels do not denote a reduction in standards. Aside from some divergence on pesticides, British food standards so far remain largely unchanged since Brexit.
- inductive_magic 3y agoThis is quite the misleading wording. Britains own standards remain largely unchanged, meaning that they did not reimplement the standards enforced by the eu via national law. It follows that the standards are lower than pre brexit. /edit: apparently I stand corrected.
- jcranmer 3y agoOne of the steps of Brexit was incorporating all the then-existing EU standards into national law, because that was far easier than trying to figure out which regulations they wanted and which regulations they didn't in the X-month period they had.
- inductive_magic 3y agoI’m not sure I follow. The eu regulations no longer apply to food companies operating in the UK, as the UK no longer is in eu-jurisdiction. The uk govt would have to re-implement them one by one, which a) would be a considerable effort and b) defeats the point of brexit, and thus likely come at political costs. /edit: thanks for the responses, TIL.
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> The uk govt would have to re-implement them one by one, You have it backwards. They have to de-implement them in order to get rid of them. The EU doesn't have federal laws in the way that the US does, each law is independently implemented in each member state.
- flohofwoe 3y agoGreat Britain has a bit of a history with product warning labels "backfiring" ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
- yashg 3y agoIronic. I thought Brexiters didn't want Brussels to make rules for them.
- fmajid 3y agoNot that different from US consumers insisting on Mexican Coca-Cola because it is made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
- paulmd 3y agoUS consumers didn’t just vote for Mexit, though