Comments on: Scaremongering bollocks

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:26:00 +0000

Personally, I think it’s all a conspiracy by Lea and Perrins to remind everyone that there’s only one real Worcestershire Sauce.

By: frank

frank — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:20:00 +0000

Problem is: the fuss will die down and the Food Industry and the FSA will go back to business as normal in a few weeks time. The only way to make a longer-lasting change to the things we consume in our food is to take a personal, indiviual interest in it. That means reading the label, reading the origin tag, thinking about what must have happened for that item to reach the (super-)market, etc. The best these scares can do is get people talking about industrial food production, but it won’t guarantee that they see the light.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:16:00 +0000

I dunno. I think it's probably a good thing that the food industry has been given a kicking over this issue, because it makes them realise that the FSA tells them to withdraw products, it means "get busy and bloody well do it".

If they'd been allowed to get away with sloppy practices on this one, then we might have got the same "hmmm, yeah, woteva" attitude when something genuinely dangerous came along. It's like the broken window theory of policing applied to food companies.

By: frank

frank — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:31:00 +0000

More scaremongering at the Indy