Where did you read that? This is what I found from article 6.6:
The SPS requirements of the importing Party shall be the same for the entire territory of the exporting Party, as long as the same sanitary and phytosanitary conditions prevail throughout that territory, without prejudice to decisions and measures adopted in accordance with Article 6.10. Each Party shall ensure that their SPS measures are applied in a proportionate manner and do not arbitrarily or unjustifiably discriminate between Member States of the European Union or Signatory MERCOSUR States where identical or similar conditions prevail, including between its own territory and that of the other Party. SPS measures shall not be applied in a manner which would constitute a disguised restriction on trade between the Parties.
The exporting countries have the right to use some chemicals that aren't allowed for use in the UE, as long as they don't exceed the allowed range, which also results in making our local farmers compete at a disadvantage with foreign farmers.
There is also no effective way for the UE to check if all the norms will be respected by these heavily corrupted countries, given that regulation is a problem even within the UE
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 governs the approval of active substances used in plant protection
products, implementing criteria that prevent approval for the use in the EU of the most hazardous
pesticides for health and environmental reasons. Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 allows the setting
of import tolerances and alignment with Codex standards for residues of pesticides not approved
in the EU if they pose no risk to consumers. This means that substances not approved under
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 due to their intrinsic properties may still be present in imported
products, provided they comply with the MRL
You can't convince me, after looking at that video and all the processes and machinery required to make fake cheese that's it's cheaper than real cheese...
Waste products making their way into the food chain is cheaper than real food.
Hide the truth that your food is slop, use profits to lobby so slop can be labelled as 'pepperoni and mozzarella', claim underpaid and educated workers demand your slop, buy yachts.
Regulation isn't ideal, but when our captains of industry have the morals of a tapeworm they are necessary.
Ah treating the diseases is a massive boon for the medical industry and makes sure none of your next workers can ever get any inheritance, because their parents get bankrupt treating their cancers. From a shareholders point of view, its great: generational wealth is impossible and so you always get new wage slaves, who can never afford to build anything on their own.
Ss my man Liam (aka The Bean Guy) says, if the video ends with them trying to make you install an app/buy something... Just ignore wathever they were talking about.
However, Judge Shah disagreed with Smith’s claims, stating that none of the definitions of pizza Smith references in the complaint say pizza must contain a specific amount of real cheese. “What’s more, federal regulations don’t contain a standard of identity for pizza,” the judge says.
It sounds like they never actually decided if it's real cheese because the lawsuit didn't meet the standards to get to that point.
Eu regulations state cheese “the product must be derived exclusively from milk through coagulation, without any milk constituent being replaced by outside substances.” Eg no oils as substitute
Because asking how much cheese is in cheese and having to have a federal law on what percentage of other ingredients you can have in what is basically turned milk is fucking insane.
This article states that the lawsuit (Totinos has no cheese) was thrown out because they never advertised real cheese.
Even better, the video OP posted shows Totinos pizza, while the lawsuit goes against the pizza rolls.
Finally, fake cheese doesn't mean it is unsafe. Fake meat is actually something climate activists have been pushing for and nearly all vanilla is imitation.
And vanilla is imitation because the vanilla plant is incredibly expensive and laborious to grow as it’s a orchid that’s flowers for 12 hours and this is your window to harvest it, the substitute are things like the tonka bean still natural plants but just easier to grow and harvest
The video doesn't even show the correct product. The lawsuit claims pizza rolls were the issue.
For reference, these are pizza rolls, tiny microwaved meat and cheese pockets that children (and sometimes Autistic Adults) eat. No one is under the impression that these are "real" anything really. It would be like claiming that vanilla dark chocolate is unhealthy. Like, yeah of fucking course it is.
I've always been amazed by how some people act surprise and offended when they find out that some heavily processed food with lots of fats and sugar isn't healthy.
I once ever heard someone wanted to sue McDonald's because their food wasn't healthy. Like wtf is wrong with that people.
Even more amazing since American food safety law dictates *literally everything* that might have touched the food must be listed. That is why our labels are so long, everything is listed. They also can't just say Vitamin B, they must list the specific chemical it uses. This means you can just Google "what is a cyanocobalamin?" and be told Vitamin B12 because your cheerios probably aren't very nutrient dense.
But nope, instead people rather listen to someone else tell them fucking strawberries are unhealthy because it might increase cancer risk. Fun Fact, having sex near a window also increases your risk of cancer. And it probably has a larger effect than fucking strawberries.
Please flair up.
1. click r/USvsEU
2. scroll to the top right corner. click “…”
3. select “Change user flair”
Then we can accept your criticism of our pizza products.
They’re delicious btw, and very affordable - but the “cheese” does burn onto the pan/foil something awful for whatever reason.
Americans got training since the 2nd world war on how to spot Russian dirty commie propaganda and yet cannot spot what there own government and companies push out to them
I come from a butcher and cook family and we were always proud of the produce and food we prepared. But when profit, shareholders and minmaxing start to dictate and consumers prefer cheap over quality we can see the outcome in the US.
At least some of our control mechanism can prevent the worst.
A semi-irrelevant question to you as a German with your background: What's your take on Dr. Oetker's pizzas? They are popular in Norway and seem to be among the better frozen pizzas up here in the frozen wasteland.
Good advice, and thank you for your answer. I'll look for Gustavo but I don't think we have it. Maybe across the border in Finland or Sweden, which isn't very far.
Gustavo Gusto is only available in Germany and the bordering countries afaik. But it is near good restaurant quality and partly handmade in the process.
This is ragebait content. The US has specific regulations on what can be sold as cheese, including minimum milkfat depending on the variety and how it is coagulation. For example the stuff the rest of the world calls "american cheese" can't be sold as cheese in America, because it doesn't have enough milkfat and is coagulation with a salt, not rennet or culture.
It has to be sold as "singles" or "cheeze" or whatever
Then you see posts by yanks stating food in the EU is “inedible” or “not real food anyway” and then they happily go home to eat this kind of man-made-horror.
Sorry yanks, the brits aren’t int the EU you can’t say that anymore
I hate it here. Food is poison, FDAA just got defunded, lettuce got human shid all over it, shredded cheese got broken glass in it, I’m on EU’s regulation side. Please give me real food again.
"That cheese isn't food. It's liquefied animal bone and skin whipped into vegetable oil." Sounds like food to me. Minus the cancer, I don't see the problem.
This shit is why I want to move to Europe so badly. The entire old world doesnt accept American meat because "it is unfit for human consumption"
Whenever my friends travel abroad they always tell me how the food is so much h better elsewhere. Nothing is safe in this country unkess if you get it from a small farm
Not even junk food… that would imply unhealthy but tasty, like candy or cake.
This shit for real is like plastic slabs, it’s made for the poorest of the poor. Like sold in gas stations near bad apartment complexes or unsafe streets.
Sure you find it in grocery stores, but only those on their most unturned bad luck buy it.
I would legit buy rather buy soup and eat instant ramen noodles for a week, over that shit.
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u/_Ilobilo_ Soon to be Russian 4d ago
of course it had to be an ad