The short Story is, that they only mark the country of the company who sells the products and not the country of origin. So for wxamble, their own peanuts are marked with a star as they are based in EU as a company, but their peanuts can come from the US. Same gores with “California raisins” and other products what recieve the EU mark simply because the company who owns the brand are based in EU.
Isn’t that fair? They tell you exactly what the star is based on.
How would you do it with a product with multiple ingredients from a cross the world?
If the idea is to avoid American, and support European. Purchasing from a middleman European company is hardly supporting European.
Most of the money ultimately still ends up in American hands, just the tiny bit of profit added on during the final sale to the consumer remains European. Everything else goes back to America.
If I sold you a packet of bananas, and told you they’re Irish bananas because it’s an Irish company selling them, you’d call me a liar because obviously Ireland doesn’t have the climate to grow bananas. It’s the same principle.
If it’s not European, don’t put the star on, it’s pretty simple.
Sure, but that’s not what they claim the star means. This star is better than nothing.
I just checked our favorite brand of raisins to see if they were American.
It was such a relief when I found out they are from Chile.
So it is absolutely possible to get high quality raisins that are not from California.I believe this is easily solved by considering why consumers care about origin so much in these times. Namely, to boycot US. So simply indicating on the product (e.g. with a us flag) whether any part of its production chain is US-based and hence will put money in US hands, is enough for consumers to make a choice about the product.
