Food scares, juicy marketing of large retailers

[izentrop]

Marketing of "free" is flourishing on supermarket shelves and catchy advertising is taking hold of "GMO free", "palm oil free", "gluten free", "paraben free", "preservative free" ...

Food paranoia
All these negative allegations fuel food paranoia and create a climate of mistrust among consumers likely to turn against large-scale food distribution! The latter takes the risk of funding militant associations opposed to pesticides and GMOs to contribute to the development of the more profitable organic market. Carrefour and Auchan finance CRIIGEN *, whose mediated and dependent studies against GMOs and the Roundup® weed killer are regularly challenged by the scientific community.

Several organic distribution companies, such as Biocoop, are helping to finance the association Générations futures, the spearhead of the opposition to pesticides.

In October 2010, Carrefour launched a major marketing campaign "fed without GMOs" on 300 products of its brand from breeding. Operation hailed by José Bové, Greenpeace and WWF. This initiative was intended to be reassuring for consumers. But how many consumers know that no food product made from animals fed with GMOs (meat, milk, eggs) can contain traces of them (DNA or proteins)?

Organic food perceived without pesticides or GMOs are considered beneficial for health and the environment and have undeniably become a buoyant and profitable market sector for all major food groups.
So many actors who prefer to erase the real health risks of products stamped AB, especially biological contaminants such as mycotoxins, salmonella or bacteria. Who dares to forget that a mutant and pathogenic strain of Escherichia coli caused about fifty deaths in Germany in 2011?

The marketing operation launched with a lot of publicity in January 2017 by the Système U group, aimed at the eradication of "90 controversial substances" in the products of its brand, constitutes a new and worrying drift of large food distribution. The CEO of Système U affirms that these 90 incriminated substances are the result of 5 years of expert research. Which experts? Their identities are not disclosed. Neither did their studies. https://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribu ... 61603.html

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[Janic]

This is the typical example of lobbies that after the negation of the danger of their products (tobacco industry genre) try to catch up with the branches using false arguments (some justified as for all things) that do not stand before the reality of the world. The super markets are following a trend of civil society whose consumers are tired of being guinea pigs and victims of poisoning products whose interest is not that of consumers, but only manufacturers.
This is not to scare, but to become aware of an already existing problem and that the lobbies of the food industry have done everything to hide the risks to consumers.

[izentrop]

Hi Janic, I suspected your answer, you make a general case exceptional. Check these cases honestly on a case-by-case basis, compared to the progress and professionalism of the rest of the profession involved in this case.

after the negation of the danger of their products (kind tobacco industry) are trying to catch up to the branches using fallacious arguments (some justified as for all things) that do not stand in front of the reality of the world

Yes, that's marketing! Everyone decrypt with his teaching and help young people to avoid being dragged.
When I was a soldier, we were offered our free ration of cigarettes troop, admits that there has been progress, even if it is not perfect.

[Janic]

Hi Janic, I suspected your answer, you make a general case exceptional. Check these cases honestly on a case-by-case basis, compared to the progress and professionalism of the rest of the profession involved in this case.

What does it mean: case by case?
This article, written by an anti-bio who sees waving hand agrochemistry on a sector where she reigned supreme, undeniable (if not undisputed!), And uses its usual counter-truths. You can not expect him to shoot himself in the foot (even if it happens to them inadvertently!). Now, it seems to me, that you confuse the profession of farmer, with his concern for survival regardless of the agrarian mode used, and agrochemistry which is a liberal industry that must make profits to feed its shareholders who make fun of them. where will come the big pennies that they will be able to touch, and if tomorrow it was the bio that provides them, they would drop what you defend and too bad for the case!
The mass distribution is also of the same kind and it takes the turn it perceives within our society.

janic wrote: after the negation of the danger of their products (kind tobacco industry) are trying to catch up to the branches using fallacious arguments (some justified as for all things) that do not stand in front of the reality of the world

Yes, that's marketing! Everyone decrypt with his teaching and help young people to avoid being dragged.

Do not get carried away, it's just a sight of the spirit!
We live in a type of society based on profit, not on a philosophical discourse.
Agriculture is no exception, and farmers realize, a little late, that they have been "trapped" by the economic system that has pushed them to go into debt, to no longer be able to live of their work, (even in organic) and as a farmer said " if it continues, France will have to provide food to our neighbors (near or far) because our agriculture will have almost disappeared. »
So the article shows that it is the agro-industrialists who are afraid for their profits, not the public, because the author confuses fear and caution or precautionary principle!

When I was a soldier, we were offered our free ration of cigarettes troop, admits that there has been progress, even if it is not perfect.

In a way: yes! But at that time, the state was the largest manufacturer and distributor of cigarettes in France (the SEITA) and it was a way to make a future customer loyalty. [*]
Since then he has divested himself of this monopoly and plays the holy nitouches moralists while the taxes continue to fall abundantly in his coffers. Same thing for other illegal drugs that the state would like to tax too (nothing moral here!)

(For tobacco, a new scandal is underway on cigarette pollution measures, by a trick on filters that distort the measurements.)
[*] Already Colbert considered that taxes on tobacco represented a significant part of the revenues of the State!

[izentrop]

What does it mean: case by case?

Agriculture is no exception, and farmers realize, a little late, that they have been "trapped" by the economic system that has pushed them to go into debt, to no longer be able to live of their work

You still make a generality without nuance.

There are especially the breeders who bought food from their animals and had no other rope to their bow. They have invested taking into account possible help from the state or Europe and forgetting that the market has become global and that there is more money in the coffers. It was those who were the first to be hit by the crisis and the drop in consumption of meat and milk.

Others, like those who made a big part of their animals' diet by growing them on their land, were able to change the direction of their crops without much damage ... I know some, but those do not are not publicized.

[Janic]

You still make a generality without nuance.
There are especially the breeders who bought food from their animals and had no other rope to their bow. They have invested in taking into account any help from the state or Europe and forgetting that the market has become global and that there is no more money in the coffers These are the ones that have been the first hit by the crisis and the decline in consumption of meat and milk ..

This highlights that they have been trapped. We must not look at the phenomenon as new, appearing suddenly now. It's been decades since the process is started (starting with the consolidation that made the case!) Whose purpose is to see disappear all independent operations to make the business of food exclusive to a nostalgic minority of the era of lords and peasants under their domination, and this is what happens before our eyes, just open these!

Others, like those who made a big part of their animals' diet by growing them on their land, were able to change the direction of their crops without much damage ... I know some, but those do not are not publicized.

They will finish the same way! Devoured raw or cooked for the benefit of a few, like the rest of society, their case is not unique and isolated!

It was those who were the first to be hit by the crisis and the drop in consumption of meat and milk.

There is very little drop in meat consumption in particular, the figures show just a shift in the consumption of red meat to white meats such as poultry following the mad cow scandals and other similar systems.
the problem comes mainly from the fact that the products are manufactured elsewhere at prices much lower than in France with little different quality: the grass is not less green elsewhere!