How we're scammed into eating phony food
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How we're scammed into eating phony food
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#2Wow! Can I blame this for my obesity?
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#3According to https://www.teekampagne.de/en/tea/darjeeling-tea/only-accept... the Tea Board of India estimates that about 40000 tons of Darjeeling are sold all over the world.
But only 10000 tons of tea are produced in Darjeeling.
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#4Wow! Can I blame this for my obesity?
You legitimately can (combined with other, related, avenues of blame). Of course, doing so won't remove your obesity.
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#5US restaurants need not list ingredients. But is it illegal for them to lie? That's an honest question.
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#6Food is actually a surprisingly good market for counterfeit goods, because the evidence gets eaten.
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#7I am surprised this isn't more commonly known. Locally (Australia), there has been recent furore over the 'blueberries' in most foods (including blueberry muffins etc.) not actually being blueberries, but a bluey chemical gel.
Also, a local delicacy, the Barramundi fish is commonly replaced in restaurants with the cheaper, imported, less tasty, commercially raised Nile perch. Same with prawns, where beautiful sea fresh King prawns are being replaced with poor sample raised in Vietnamese sewerage farms.
I believe by law now restaurants and shops have to show the actual name of the fish, plus whether it is local or imported.
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#8I'm glad that this article is about actual fraud rather than the much more common (and less interesting) "Processed food isn't real food" type hysteria that is much more prevalent these days.
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#9Not quite the same, but earlier this year I was working in Italy for a few months. I went back to the UK last week and it really surprised me how poor the quality of food is there. I don't mean in restaurants, but the actual ingredients you get in supermarkets.
In Italy you can go into even the cheapest supermarkets and get tomatoes that smell like actual tomatoes, where as in the UK they just have no smell. Even tomatoes supposedly grown in Italy were the same (I guess they keep the good ones for themselves).
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#10US restaurants need not list ingredients. But is it illegal for them to lie? That's an honest question.
In some places, yes. A few sushi spots around here were fined for using not-lobster in their lobster dishes: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-fake-lobster-r...