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There are legal requirements for knowing the origin of foodstuffs in most liberal progressive democracies, I'm sure Denmark will have some. If a supermarket cannot discern where their foods are coming from I think there's far bigger issues at play than European star labels.
What you're suggesting is that large corporations are so incompetent, and being incompetent is profitable, that they should be left alone to continue to be incompetent. So that they can profit and we, the consumer, are told to jog on.
If they cannot confidently say an item is European then they shouldn't label it as European.
If they cannot confidently say which continent an item they expect you to eat comes from, then they shouldn't be operating.
This is key.
I'd rather not buy peanuts than have them be presented as European, simply because a European company has had them repcked and have their name out on the packaging
No, the brand is presented as European, not the product itself. They should probably rework that a bit though, at least for simple things like peanuts or bourbon.
I mean, you said it not me. This is not false.
Different question — it’s one of priority. If you can catch 90% of the non-European items cheaply and easily, better to do that than to catch 99.9% and raise prices so much that the European products are not competitive. They’re guidelines not strict life-and-death rules.