Definitions are always a tricky business. As far as I understand the current EU definition of genetically modified allows irraditation to increase mutation rate. I don’t know whether the organic food regulations do.
Recently I posted something about the EU commision wanting to say that coloring eggs red or blue makes them not fall under the organic standard. It’s not possible to read a single paragraph about the definition to really tell you what falls under it but you have bureaucrats who do mind all the little details.
Which is kind of the point. How can we have a meaningful discussion about something, when it takes pages to define it? And if the definition is so complicated, then it really isn’t legitimate to ascribe companies’ aversion to complying as simply not wanting to inform customers.
How can we have a meaningful discussion about something, when it takes pages to define it?
By actually thinking about the issue? Just look at how many pages Eliezer needed to explain his idea of “truth”.
And if the definition is so complicated, then it really isn’t legitimate to ascribe companies’ aversion to complying as simply not wanting to inform customers.
That’s not what I do. Companies lobbies on multiple fronts at not wanting to inform customers.
I don’t think that companies would have an issue to explain on a web page in a few pages what their production process entails. I can’t even easily find out whether or not beef I buy in my supermarket comes from grass-fed cows or whether it doesn’t.
Companies do have lawyers that can read a bunch of pages and then apply the correct label.
Definitions are always a tricky business. As far as I understand the current EU definition of genetically modified allows irraditation to increase mutation rate. I don’t know whether the organic food regulations do.
Recently I posted something about the EU commision wanting to say that coloring eggs red or blue makes them not fall under the organic standard. It’s not possible to read a single paragraph about the definition to really tell you what falls under it but you have bureaucrats who do mind all the little details.
Which is kind of the point. How can we have a meaningful discussion about something, when it takes pages to define it? And if the definition is so complicated, then it really isn’t legitimate to ascribe companies’ aversion to complying as simply not wanting to inform customers.
By actually thinking about the issue? Just look at how many pages Eliezer needed to explain his idea of “truth”.
That’s not what I do. Companies lobbies on multiple fronts at not wanting to inform customers.
I don’t think that companies would have an issue to explain on a web page in a few pages what their production process entails. I can’t even easily find out whether or not beef I buy in my supermarket comes from grass-fed cows or whether it doesn’t.
Companies do have lawyers that can read a bunch of pages and then apply the correct label.