Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite

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• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.

  Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.

  On the other hand, the reason it’s failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.

  I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, uhh…where’s the “both sides” to this? “High standards when it comes to food regulations” doesn’t work as an excuse for banning healthier food. That’s absurd.

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    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fortification can be used to manipulate some health rating systems. I don’t know what system Canada uses, but Health Star is particularly vulnerable to this. Basically you can make a product that’s high in fat / salt / sugar look better than it is by adding vitamins. So it makes some kind of sense to restrict fortification to certain classes of foods.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. It’s not a great standard because fortified foods are still very useful.

    It’s not even dangerous to have that added vitamin B because it’s a water soluble vitamin and the risk of overdosing is negligible

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  • TassieTosser@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s doubly strange because Vegemite is available in their supermarkets.

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  • Greyghoster@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The vitamin B in Vegemite is naturally occurring from the yeast process. It’s not added.

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• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time to kick these fuckers out of the Commonwealth. Make them our 7th state. Or slap a 150% tariff on maple syrup. Where the fuck is Albo on this?

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s tariff their maple syrup in response.

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  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    betootaadvocate.com/…/australia-moves-to-ban-mapl…

    Australia Moves To Ban Maple Syrup Because Fuck You Too Canada

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My 6 year old jar of Vegemite is worth way more than $8K…

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