Bediene dich deines Verstandes - auch im Supermarkt every individual should be aware that upon entering a supermarket, the fraud goes off even from us: Fruit and vegetables are among farbbrillanzförderndem Tungsten, meat is packed with oxygen, individual products are made of flimsy reasons offered particularly good value, cheese turns out to be something very different pack sizes and formulations to be changed, "improved".
In France (yes, that means the country which claims itself to have the best cuisine in the world) it is even allowed to blow artificial fragrances above so-called fresh food counters in the air.
The desperate consumers are rightly asks: What should I buy? What should I eat? Is this good for my children?
But help is near: first, there are classically the
BMELV , the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Here, however, a little caution, Ms. Aigner but not quite so hard at the thing, when it came to enforcing the food traffic light. In cooperation with the Ministry offers aid
(the unpromising title "land-and home-economic analysis and information service" is apparently no longer used) various advisory and training programs about nutrition, for example, you can order on the website a list of additives permitted by law (the famous
E's).
And of course:
foodwatch . A private consumer organization, which functions among other things, the noble ideal that consumers are not helpless in the lobbying. Its founder, former Greenpeace activist Thilo Bode, in September, the book "The Counterfeiters Food" was published, which is suitable for a deeper introduction to the subject very well.
But the best protection against the high spirits of the groups is still to do his homework. Those who simply takes the time (who thinks he would not have any, should reconsider his priorities again), to deal with food, and if only a brief look at the ingredients list and Nutrition Facts that will quickly find that children in bars is no milk in it. And even vanishingly little calf liver in liver sausage. That "with improved recipe" at best, not just a new packaging design comes along, but also a hefty price increase. In the worse case, a few more additives have been hineingepanscht.
The customer must be a treudoof lamb, the fully packed to Muzak (another trick) will-the shopping cart with products that do not really buy it, let alone eat wants. He only has eyes and ears open to keep a bit and realize that it's not about customer satisfaction, but about revenue.
