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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoThe EU’s so-called “higher standards” are just another layer of bureaucratic theater designed to placate its own citizens while hiding the rot underneath
Absolute counterfactual nonsense.
Sure, they slap a fancy label on their food policies, but it’s not about protecting people—it’s about protecting markets.
In the case of protected origin (like how you can’t call it feta if it’s not from Greece and you can’t call it champagne of it’s not from the Champagne district etc), sure.
That’s wholly separate from food safety regulations, though, which are vital for protecting the public from corporations destroying their health.
The precautionary principle? A shield for their agricultural lobby to keep out competition under the guise of safety.
Again, absolute counterfactual nonsense.
Meanwhile, the US isn’t poisoning anyone
Bullshit. Corporations are actively choosing less healthy and more addictive ingredients for their products because they’re allowed to. That’s not even debatable to anyone who’s arguing in good faith and knows the first thing about food safety.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that you’re arguing in bad faith, arguing based on ignorance, arguing based on misinformation, or more than one of the above.
Both systems are broken, but let’s not pretend one is morally superior
I wouldn’t say that the EU is IN GENERAL morally superior, but protecting the public from being poisoned at the whim of cost cutting corporations empirically IS morally superior to not doing so. Only corporations trying not get away with it and the truly deluded would disagree.
The EU’s smugness over “standards” is laughable when they’re still importing slave-labor goods and dumping waste in Africa
While yes, that’s inarguably reprehensible, that has exactly nothing to do with food safety regulations or the lack thereof.
It’s all hypocrisy dressed up as policy
Just stfu already. That the EU does reprehensible things in other areas doesn’t make the concept of food safety regulations a sham. That’s obvious to any honest person not blinded by a binary world view of “either everything they do is good or everything they do is bad”
meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Counterfactual nonsense? That’s rich coming from someone parroting the EU’s PR like it’s gospel. You think protected origin labels are “wholly separate” from market control? Laughable. They’re literally designed to monopolize markets under the guise of tradition. Keep pretending it’s about safety while ignoring how it stifles competition.
Your corporate poisoning tirade is a joke. The EU imports the same junk, just wrapped in fancier packaging. But sure, let’s blame the US for everything while ignoring Europe’s complicity. That’s some next-level selective outrage.
And your moral superiority shtick? Hilarious. Slave labor and dumping waste don’t magically disappear because you slap a “higher standards” sticker on your policies. Hypocrisy isn’t a virtue, no matter how smugly you wear it.
As for “stfu”? Cute. Resorting to playground insults when your arguments collapse under scrutiny is exactly what I’d expect from someone out of their depth.
shani66@ani.social 4 days ago
So, by your standards you gotta be perfect or the devil themself with no in-between?
meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Ah, the classic false dichotomy—perfect or devil, no in-between. Convenient oversimplification for someone dodging the actual critique. Standards aren’t about sainthood; they’re about consistency. If you’re going to preach “higher values,” maybe don’t turn a blind eye to the contradictions in your own backyard.
This isn’t about moral absolutism; it’s about calling out hypocrisy masquerading as virtue. If you can’t handle that without retreating into reductive nonsense, maybe rethink engaging in a debate that demands nuance.
And while we’re at it, reducing everything to “standards” doesn’t absolve you from addressing the systemic issues behind them. But sure, keep playing the victim of impossible expectations—it’s easier than grappling with inconvenient truths.
shani66@ani.social 4 days ago
That’s a whole lotta words to say yes
m532@lemmygrad.ml 4 days ago
Market control protects the euros from the despicable imperialist genocidal poison-eating yankkkkkkks