On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:08:25 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
> Norbert Liecfeldt writes:
>
>> That's the essence of the free market. If you want to avoid unfair
>> competition, e.g. allow the Dutch to market their inferior cucumbers as
>> "extra-class" in the UK when UK producers might have to follow the more
>> stringent UK regulations (whatever they might have been) and Class
>> equivalent cucumbers as Class 2, then you need a EU wide regulation.
>
> Yes, but the shape and the colouration of the skin do effect the taste,
> texture or nutritional value of the vegetable. So why do the regulations
> grade them according to these unimportant parameters and do not mention
> (for cucumbers) such things as the water content, skin thickness etc
> which are more relevant characteristics.
Because the market works in such a way that people buy them according to
the way they *look*, rather than according to how they *taste*. |