Re: Protesters swarm Calif. biotech meeting

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 09:37:02 MDT

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    Brian Atkins wrote:
    > 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.

    Here is a related article today talking about how companies must pay
    attention to their online reputation:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/23/technology/23REPU.html

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


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