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EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims
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The EU’s so-called “higher standards” are just another layer of bureaucratic theater designed to placate its own citizens while hiding the rot underneath. Sure, they slap a fancy label on their food policies, but it’s not about protecting people—it’s about protecting markets. The precautionary principle? A shield for their agricultural lobby to keep out competition under the guise of safety.
Meanwhile, the US isn’t poisoning anyone; it’s just playing a different game of corporate greed. Both systems are broken, but let’s not pretend one is morally superior. The EU’s smugness over “standards” is laughable when they’re still importing slave-labor goods and dumping waste in Africa.
It’s all hypocrisy dressed up as policy. Don’t buy into their self-righteous propaganda.
Absolute counterfactual nonsense.
In the case of protected origin (like how you can't call it feta if it's not from Greece and you can't call it champagne of it's not from the Champagne district etc), sure.
That's wholly separate from food safety regulations, though, which are vital for protecting the public from corporations destroying their health.
Again, absolute counterfactual nonsense.
Bullshit. Corporations are actively choosing less healthy and more addictive ingredients for their products because they're allowed to. That's not even debatable to anyone who's arguing in good faith and knows the first thing about food safety.
It's becoming increasingly clear that you're arguing in bad faith, arguing based on ignorance, arguing based on misinformation, or more than one of the above.
I wouldn't say that the EU is IN GENERAL morally superior, but protecting the public from being poisoned at the whim of cost cutting corporations empirically IS morally superior to not doing so. Only corporations trying not get away with it and the truly deluded would disagree.
While yes, that's inarguably reprehensible, that has exactly nothing to do with food safety regulations or the lack thereof.
Just stfu already. That the EU does reprehensible things in other areas doesn't make the concept of food safety regulations a sham. That's obvious to any honest person not blinded by a binary world view of "either everything they do is good or everything they do is bad"
Counterfactual nonsense? That’s rich coming from someone parroting the EU’s PR like it’s gospel. You think protected origin labels are “wholly separate” from market control? Laughable. They’re literally designed to monopolize markets under the guise of tradition. Keep pretending it’s about safety while ignoring how it stifles competition.
Your corporate poisoning tirade is a joke. The EU imports the same junk, just wrapped in fancier packaging. But sure, let’s blame the US for everything while ignoring Europe’s complicity. That’s some next-level selective outrage.
And your moral superiority shtick? Hilarious. Slave labor and dumping waste don’t magically disappear because you slap a “higher standards” sticker on your policies. Hypocrisy isn’t a virtue, no matter how smugly you wear it.
As for “stfu”? Cute. Resorting to playground insults when your arguments collapse under scrutiny is exactly what I’d expect from someone out of their depth.
Market control protects the euros from the despicable imperialist genocidal poison-eating yankkkkkkks