Gareth Morgan on Food: Buyer Beware
In this latest video from Sue Kedgley, Gareth Morgan speaks candidly about the risks associated with poorly labelled food imported from overseas. He talks about how production models in non-OECD countries differ from our own and that there are risks associated with assuming that our Food Safety Authority is equipped to deal with the differences. One important alternative to massive bureaucracy is simply to put Country of Origin Labelling on all imported foods, and let the consumer decide. After all, under the current system, it’s already a buyer beware situation. A little more information could go a long way to informing consumer choices, and it won’t cost the earth.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
“Outsourced to mum and dads backyards”? Strewth! Also odd.
Yick. Presumably *some* companies have done their own on the ground research that is relevant to their particular product/s, and I imagine some would put their hands up on this. But is it the intention to just have country of origin labelling (as Gareth said as the the LEAST that should happen), or have the stuff tested, or both?
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Speaking for myself, I would like to have at least some random testing done. But to build a paranoid FSA bureaucracy would be expensive and foolish. Give us country of origin labelling, at the very least, and then let consumers decide for themselves whether to buy or not.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Having just watched the TV program on fakes from China I would be insisting on Country of origin labelling.
The idea that toxic waste can be incorporated in food products gives me the horrors.
Imagine carcinogenic fake eggs of all things.
The health of the family is the first priority as far as I am concerned.
All else comes after.
I would want a guarantee that food & medicine are of the highest quality possible.
Kings once had food tasters.
How about, ‘we the people’ having a food taster, in the form of our beloved leaders.
Very inexpensive quick fix; don’t you think.?