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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-consumption
We have strict food control (more strict than EU has), we find out everything.
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1. The laws of the free market are as they are. Quality of life, which includes food, goes hand in hand with how much money you are able/willing to spend on improving it.
2. Eastern Europe lacks regulations and laws. Not only that but people often lack civil culture. They endure things that westerners would never allow in their countries. Sometimes, they would not even defend their basic rights and 'let go'. That general obedience, that is fortunately less and less displayed, is a strong communist heritage.
3. Another communist heritage: state organisms regulating the quality of food are easily corrupted or prone to manipulation.
Directly related to 2. and 3. Just profit at all costs: low quality food is cheaper to produce. On a side note, kindness is not among the qualities of the food producing company CEOs, I hope you're not surprised.
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You are partially right - but I don't have sympathies for that flagellant approach. You can't know what would WEs allowed on this field because they never were in this situation. Remember their countries are full of immigrants and they allow it...
I dont know how the situation in Bulgaria is, I can speak only for my country. It is not true people are not angry about eg this food situation. We've known about it for several years and I can see that people's preferences are changing day by day. Czech people definitely prefer Czech products (many non-Czech food companies try to deceive consumers that their goods are of Czech origin). Many local food markets are founded. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact a new generation (people who werent raised during communism) have grown.
I am an optimists in that. Post-communist countries need time, that's right, but it already took 30 years. I guess most EE countries are stronger and more self-confident now.
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I'm not sure what name brands you're talking about but the coke I had in Amsterdam was different from the coke in Canada for example.
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Then just boycott them, prefer products from your country or from Developing countries
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By the way, I never realised it even was the case so close at home (poorer EU countries).
But yeah, I knew a poorer quality of goods in developing countries was a fact, and goods produced in those same developing countries of better quality get sold to the highest bidder in the West leaving the locals with the inferior scraps.
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