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Yeah - was about to do that
I think EU regulations for food and border-free movement between countries are the two most valuable EU advantages by far
I’m not sure what you’re loling about, only major difference between EU and USA nutrition labels are the percentage amount listings.
IIRC - USA is a lot more arbitrary and less interested in the customer safety (and open for bribery, sorry I mean lobbying) and USA also has a good amount of stuff for sale that’s not allowed in EU.
There’s quite a few articles and videos on the subject, but it’s been a long time since I read or watched any.
Is the EU better than the US in this respect? You bet.
Can the US do better? Sure.
But the US is definitely far better with food nutrition labels than many countries with unenforced laws.
They both require ingredient lists, though. This specific case could easily happen to either the EU or USA.
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The USA and EU both require a full list of ingredients, though.
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You said you view the USA’s regulatory standards as the USA views Nigeria’s but the USA enforces a full ingredient list so that’s kind of nonsensical. If a can of tomatoes went from the USA to EU there would likely be no issue. Even the more chemical sounding names like “Calcium Chloride” salt are commonplace in the EU, in fact I think it was developed there.
I think regulations are better in the EU but you chose a really shit example to use.
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Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.
For now
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I think they’re really going to lose a lot of business over this lawsuit. If they had just left that lady alone hardly anyone would have seen her review lol
Streisand effect hits hard
Amazing that we, as a species, are incapable of learning from history.
I mean there’s a reason there’s warning labels on everything about not doing the most obvious thing you should never do.
Not everyone reads the same stuff we do.
Which sucks. But that’s why.
I think it will eventually happen. But centuries away.
Makes me thankful that in the US the truth is a defense against libel.
Only if you can get through the years of litigation, harassment, stress, and have the money to weather it out. Truth and justice are more easily attainable for those who can afford it.
You don’t find this kind of criminal prosecution or civil actions in the US.
No, not criminal prosecutions for what should be a minor issue, but definitely civil suits. SLAPP suits have been a problem, where the plaintiff doesn’t necessarily expect to win. They just want to punish people by making their lives miserable through drawn out litigation. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UN8bJb8biZU
Compared to other countries our risk is pretty low. Does the risk of a SLAPP keep you from reviewing a restaurant? In Portugal people that have been scammed out of money on non-existent rentals are scared to me names because of the very real risk of criminal prosecution.
In Portugal, as far as I know uniquelly in the Western World, Libel is a Criminal matter.
It’s mainly used by politicians (who have the influence to get the local version of the Public Prosecution Office to prosecute it) to go after people who accuse them of something as means to shut up less powerful people up.
(Personally I think the reason it’s Criminal rather than Civil is exactly so that the powerful or well-connected can use Justice as a tool against others for free rather than the American system were it’s the Moneyed that get to use Justice as a tool against others)
Unsurprisingly there is lots of corruption over here. Also Justice is so slow that it de facto doesn’t work for most of the time, though in this kind of situation they make sure it goes all the way.
(I actually know somebody who was convicted of Libel for accusing a politician of Corruption … and more than a decade later that guy was in jail for Corruption - first one ever in Portugal - and I can tell you lots of people inside the Public Prosecution Office from his party tried to discretelly shelve the process until the deadlines expired and had to be threatenned with being exposed in the Pressed)
It’s part of the reason why this country is such a disgrace (and I say this as somebody who lived and worked in a couple of countries in Europe so have lots of references to compare it against).
Lots of local police departments in USA too frequently arrest people for bullshit charges when called out
And in today’s episode of Totally Un-self-aware,
The company’s founder, Eric Umeofia, refused to budge, however, saying in a recent documentary on the local Arise Television channel that he won’t drop the lawsuit against Okoli and that he would “rather die than allow someone to tarnish my image I worked 40 years to grow.”
So this asshole is the person churning up that poor woman’s isolated bad review into ALL the Streisand effect he can possibly get, as hard as he can, to the point that it is now international news how abysmally shitty his product really is, AND he’s also the person announcing dramatically that he’d rather die than allow anyone to do that.
Hmmm. Will he ever connect the dots?
Nah. He’ll just keep blaming and harassing that poor woman for the rest of his days while people stop buying his product in droves because both it and he leave such a bad taste in the mouth.
He’s only 39 with a 40 year old image 🤔
The woman being harassed by this company and the police is the only that’s 39. The article doesn’t mention the founder’s age, and he definitely looks older than 39 from a quick search.
He worked hard in utero. /#neverstophustling
He’s only 39 with a 40 year old image
Lol, great catch! I totally missed that.
EDITED TO ADD: It was the lady who was 39, not the guy suing her. My bad. I should probably just go ahead and revisit Hooked on Phonics now because I can’t fucking read, lol.
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he would “rather die
This dude takes tomato sauce seriously.
Blood may be thicker than water but tomato sauce is thicker than blood.
Guess he won’t be eating his own tomato puree then
“I won’t allow some lady to tarnish my image!”
“I will do it my self!”
Sounds like corruption is playing a part in this
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What are the odds the food owner has a good friend at the ol’ Nigerian Justice Department.
This whole thing is bullshit on top of bullshit.
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You know what to do boys!
This one deserved a internet “hug”. I swear to god corrupt people like this should have their lifes destroyed
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manufacturer had used the incorrect stock photo for the part
That’s apparently really common. It’s a lot of trouble to bring every transmission, door handle, gas tank, hood hinge, etc… into the studio for a reference image. They use a “basic” image a lot of the times.
I had the good fortune to be able to buy ebay car parts that are exclusively photographed on a dirty workbench, and they’ve always worked like a charm.
Used market is a bit easier to do that as both the seller and buyer understand that having a clear set with proper lighting isn’t necessary.
“This tomato sauce is a bit sweet for my taste.”
“FUCK YOU! I WILL KILL YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR DOG, BURN EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND AND PISS ON THE ASHES!”
“Jesus Christ, man! I just said it was a bit too sweet.”
She actually said something along the lines of “your brother’s company is killing people the sauce is so sweet” in response to a comment or so I read in another article this morning.
It’s in this article:
Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.
I hope that her defense also makes the argument that there is no damages because online reviews have zero value when the majority of them are fake paid reviews.
I can just about hear someone saying, “Do you know who I am?” or “Do you know who my father is?”
This situation just screams of the diabeetus-loving tomato sauce company bribing the local police.
Let’s make a competing brand for Africa called BIG-DIKO. Make it the most nutritional and have natty black dudes pose for the cans.
“Zero filler, all substance - get swole, have a BIG-DIKO.”
Nah that’s ok. You should definitely do that on your own though! Let us know how it works out for you…
Sounds like something someone with high sugar intake would say. I think you might need some BIG-DIKO in your diet.
My doctor said I should avoid BIG-DIKO. Thanks for your concern though!
Your doctor is a quack. Enjoy some nutritious BIG-DIKO.
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Holy shit, fuck Nigeria. Can we freedom them next? Sounds like they actually need it, but there’s probably no oil to be had.
There’s shittons of oil in Nigeria, and most of it is being siphoned off by multinational oil companies.
No need to invade if you can just get the corrupt government you’re propping up to sell it to you cheap in the first place.
Dutch person here, fuck Shell.
They have a lot of rich but unfortunate princes though, so there must be something to sustain all the royalty trying to give me their money.
As far as large corporations being able to sue you and get the cops to harass you the US may actually be worse.
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Nintendo literally shut down a company last month for developing an emulator for the switch just by having more money.
Nintendo is a Japanese company. They settled out of court. The US legal system did not get involved…
Yea, it did. In most countries if you threaten to sue someone for something like this the judge would just laugh you out if the court room. What Nintendo did was threaten them with a lengthy legal battle they had no means to pay for and the options were to just shut down and declare bankruptcy or have Nintendo drain their funds and then declare bancruptcy. There was no other outcome because of how the US system of you can sue anyone for anything works.
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According to the article the conditions in the jail were just deplorable to the point of being torture which is also common in the US. So that’s also comparable.
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The US literally has the Guatanamo Bay concentration camp for political prisoners so they could legally torture them.
If you want something more domestic then I’m sure one of those had some water or furniture related death: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-deaths/ Though from what I understand in the US death by cop is the most likely.
Maybe don’t claim their product is killing people because it’s a little too sweet for your taste…?
Okoli responded: “Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.”
Yeah that’s not gonna go over well anywhere, even the USA. Especially being a business owner….
It’s hyperbole. If you want that to be illegal I’d be hanged for how hyperbolic I am.
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It’s not hyperbole when you are business owner and/or a large following of people who can sway things.
Kind of like police taking advantage of their power and being held to different standards than the general public……
Yeah this shits not hyperbole and she would be sued in the States too, sorry, this isn’t freedom of speech by any stretch here.
Bruh.
She shouldn’t have been so melodramatic, but she also shouldn’t have been arrested for being melodramatic.
She’s a person in a position of power due to being a business owner and her followers, just like anyone else in that position, they should know better and are held to higher standard.
She fucked up and would be sued anywhere in the world for her remarks, sorry for pointing out facts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ shits not free speech when you are in some positions, she crossed that line:
Describe what you mean by “freedom of speech” here, I’m assuming you don’t mean the first amendment because that only applies in the US and only for protection against congress ( the US congress ofc ).
Given the above I’m not sure what line you mean here, libel/slander?
You can only point out facts that exist, well, you can technically point out whatever you like and call it “fact” i suppose, but it’s not really accurate unless it’s an actual fact.
Unless accuracy isn’t what you were going for ?
In case you were wondering : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fact
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Did you mean to reply to me? Or the person above?
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Where is the United States even mentioned Here…?
Thanks for being the stereotypical ignorant American who has to make everything about themselves while also making a complete moron of themselves.
Fucking lmfao.
Here is one example
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted during the French Revolution in 1789, specifically affirmed freedom of speech as an inalienable right.[6] Adopted in 1791, freedom of speech is a feature of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I mean you can just find in page for “United States”
Also , not american (a good example of an actual fact) and i very specifically ruled out the typical american interpretation of freedom of speech.
The fact that i was asking you what interpretation you were using implies i recognise more than just one, so even if i were american (again, not american) the question would still stand.
I also , very specifically asked what interpretation you were using for your argument, but it seems we’ve skipped over the questions entirely and gone straight to factually incorrect personal attacks.
I’ll just assume you don’t have an answer to the actual question given no attempt was made to actually answer it, or perhaps you think your position is unassailable and an answer is beneath you.
Regardless, good luck with fact pointing i suppose.
edit: added answer to your question
You started with the personal attacks first, so why the fuck do you think you deserve better back?
Fucking lmfao.
McDonalds kills people every day with unhealthy foods. No joke, no hyperbole pure murder. Kills them due to thier greed. I live in the US. Do you think I should be scared 😆
Do you think I should be scared 😆
Yes but only because you live in America.
Source: same
Except this is hyperbole. People can live 80 years off eating McDonald’s and others die by eating healthy organic foods in their 50s. McDonald’s is a byproduct of the culture. It doesn’t kill people so much as their lifestyle kills them.
Hahaha wow! That’s your comment about this? Incredible!!!
Sure, if someone writes something on the internet that some business owner somewhere doesn’t like, lets just torture them. Makes total sense!
In case you are actually this dumb: Her comment was a so called hyperbole. People like using these, often for humor reasons, especially on the internet and sometimes they are used to clarify something that’s actually subtle. Nobody reading that comment actually thinks that she seriously means people would get killed by that stuff. And if they would, she should still be allowed to express what she thinks on the internet.
A person in a position of power is held to different standards, and the article the post was about had nothing to do either torture, of course that’s a terrible thing, but I was sticking to the facts of the article…
