Why? They know it’s wheat. Why should they be able to track arbitrary characteristics of the wheat? It’s like asking them to track which wheat is grown on Tuesdays, or which wheat is grown by Jews. Their system wouldn’t be set up for it.
Supermarkets where I come from do check characteristics of ingridients like pesticide content. They generally care about providing quality products.
If a supermarket wouldn’t do quality management of their suppliers I would consider that bad.
Containing peas is a subcase of a general requirement “list all ingredients”. It certainly implies that consumers do and should care about the ingredients.
Information provision is not about whether people should care about it but whether they do. In this case plenty of people do care about.
But anyway, that’s fighting the hypothetical.
I don’t see the point of why pointing out that a given example doesn’t work is bad. Don’t make fictional examples that wouldn’t work in reality in the first place, if you want to train reality based reflexes.
Being in touch with reality is a lot more valuable than being in touch with hypotheticals.
for instance “this produce comes from a company whose owner has had an abortion”.
Let’s say a business owner asks prospective employees whether they had an abortion and refuses to hire people who had. Do you think that courts would allow that?
No, they wouldn’t. They would likely argue that it’s a protected characteristic.
As I said above, I don’t think information about categories that belong to protected characteristics should be required.
But even if you would actually engage with what I’m saying and pick a characteristic of the grower that isn’t a protected characteristic, that’s not about the ingridients of the food. GMO’s do contain different proteins that otherwise wouldn’t be in the product.
Supermarkets where I come from do check characteristics of ingridients like pesticide content. They generally care about providing quality products.
If a supermarket wouldn’t do quality management of their suppliers I would consider that bad.
That is meaningless unless
“quality management” can refer to arbitrary characteristics, in which case, no, most supermarkets will not keep track of whether the wheat was harvested on Tuesdays, or
You’re assuming that there is something special about GMO such that it counts as “quality management” while whether the wheat was harvested on Tuesdays doesn’t.
Information provision is not about whether people should care about it but whether they do. In this case plenty of people do care about.
I’m pretty sure plenty of people care whether the produce is picked by illegal immigrants, at least to the extent that if they’re told, it would influence their decision. I’m also pretty sure people would care if the company owner is gay, or has had an abortion, or any of a number of politically charged things that we don’t demand should go on labels.
Don’t make fictional examples that wouldn’t work in reality in the first place, if you want to train reality based reflexes
There’s a difference between not working for reasons that affect the point and not working for reasons that don’t. The example is of a politically charged trait. If one politically charged trait isn’t workable, pretend I instead mentioned another that is.
If you don’t think abortion is a good example, change it to “has been disclosed as a campaign donor to a politician of party X” or “has refused to take an IQ test/has tested at an IQ of ___” or whatever politically charged example you think is valid.
Supermarkets where I come from do check characteristics of ingridients like pesticide content. They generally care about providing quality products.
If a supermarket wouldn’t do quality management of their suppliers I would consider that bad.
Information provision is not about whether people should care about it but whether they do. In this case plenty of people do care about.
I don’t see the point of why pointing out that a given example doesn’t work is bad. Don’t make fictional examples that wouldn’t work in reality in the first place, if you want to train reality based reflexes.
Being in touch with reality is a lot more valuable than being in touch with hypotheticals.
Let’s say a business owner asks prospective employees whether they had an abortion and refuses to hire people who had. Do you think that courts would allow that? No, they wouldn’t. They would likely argue that it’s a protected characteristic.
As I said above, I don’t think information about categories that belong to protected characteristics should be required.
But even if you would actually engage with what I’m saying and pick a characteristic of the grower that isn’t a protected characteristic, that’s not about the ingridients of the food. GMO’s do contain different proteins that otherwise wouldn’t be in the product.
That is meaningless unless
“quality management” can refer to arbitrary characteristics, in which case, no, most supermarkets will not keep track of whether the wheat was harvested on Tuesdays, or
You’re assuming that there is something special about GMO such that it counts as “quality management” while whether the wheat was harvested on Tuesdays doesn’t.
I’m pretty sure plenty of people care whether the produce is picked by illegal immigrants, at least to the extent that if they’re told, it would influence their decision. I’m also pretty sure people would care if the company owner is gay, or has had an abortion, or any of a number of politically charged things that we don’t demand should go on labels.
There’s a difference between not working for reasons that affect the point and not working for reasons that don’t. The example is of a politically charged trait. If one politically charged trait isn’t workable, pretend I instead mentioned another that is.
If you don’t think abortion is a good example, change it to “has been disclosed as a campaign donor to a politician of party X” or “has refused to take an IQ test/has tested at an IQ of ___” or whatever politically charged example you think is valid.