Re: Protesters swarm Calif. biotech meeting

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 08:54:04 MDT

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    Alfio Puglisi wrote:
    >
    > Now, the EU is trying to bring the different food standards in a common
    > one. For chocolate, they ruled that up to 5% of the total weight can be
    > replaced with filler additives with different taste. Something that no one
    > here wants to eat.
    >
    > What's the problem, you'll ask? Just don't buy them. But, the problem is
    > that, up to the 5% limit, the producer is not required to write it on the
    > label, and the consumer has NO way to know.
    >

    If, as you claim, people in Italy care that much about about sub-5%
    filler in their chocolate, why don't they simply organize together to
    pay some lab a rather paltry fee to test various brands of chocolate to
    see which ones are filler-free? It would cost each person practically
    nothing if you got any decent amount of people together, and with the
    age of the Internet you would think it would be simple to post the
    results nationwide.

    -- 
    Brian Atkins
    Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    http://www.singinst.org/
    


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