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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • This seems like an unpopular opinion but I am very happy with this.

    I see this as protection for consumers buying and understanding what is actually in the food item.

    In Norway most farms are still family owned with high tariffs on many imported products directly competing. The main dairy producer is a co-op of all the farms, and this protects them from competion from shit products from Kraft or other multi national companies peddeling their over processed crap that barley deserves the name edible.


  • This means that your agriculture is imported? ironically one of the few areas most nation protect with toll barriers.

    I can’t get my head around that industry. In my area there are several vegetable farms, most are sold long before harvesting. So one year they had a amazing cauliflower year. Yields above expected. But they could not sell the excess as there was no buyers. So I could drive past looking at happy elks gorging themselves on delicious cauliflower before they plowed it into the field. And then I went to the local grocery store and bought plastic wrapped cauliflower from Spain…