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Majority of Germans endorsed labelling of European products (www.rnd.de)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (17 children)

In short: 75% of Germans are for labeling European products but the supermarkets won't do it claiming it's too complicated.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Denmark has done it! At least, Salling Group, which is the biggest owning multiple different store names.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

The problem with how Salling does it, is it's only based on ownership of the product. Someone could for example produce and manufacture 100% of the product in USA and then ship it to Denmark, but if the owner is european, then it'll be marked as a european product.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is true, but I do believe there opposite is way more normal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

may very well be, but my point was more that even with labelling euro products this way, you're still not guarenteed not to support american corporations.

It's a bit of "the enemy of good is perfect", or however that goes, but it's still worth taking into account.

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