Do you trust product labelling?

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Another this morning - can't remember the specifics but apparently a new report shows that many products that claim to be 'green' aren't at all - or at least cannot be proven to be. This includes well known detergents, washing up liquids etc.

I'm not really surprised. Personally I'm very sceptical about anything like this. Whether the claim is to be green, organic, 'Irish', fairtrade, low fat...

I just don't believe any of it.
 
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IMO anybody who trusts labeling is very foolish. Its designed to attract the customer to buy the product and for nothing more.

Brings us back to the old - Irish smoked salmon / smoked Irish salmon.
 
All labeling is done with product-shifting in mind. Marketing is the phrase most appropriate. Different sized products every few months, "price cut" but not on same size product, emphasizing certain ingredients [that are included in all brands - giving the impression that only this product (their brand) has it], bits of green on the label etc. Lately Tesco have been pushing their bought-in wine. 750ml now. Who would bet against a 700ml bottle appearing next year?
 
Anything with a barcode on it is evil. Put 666 barcode into youtube and watch a video on there. Its all in revelations people
 
Without checking I assume this is a reference to Johnny in Mike Leigh's Naked?

Great movie BTW.

Nope, I buy according to quality/taste or whatever is appropriate to the product and nothing else will sway me. I'll buy Irish if it suits but it often doesn't. By Irish I mean something that is obviously Irish.

Fairtrade? Eco-friendly? don't believe a word of it.
 
Caveat said:
Fairtrade? Eco-friendly? don't believe a word of it.
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Me neither, at the end of the day i will buy what i need and what suits. If I can get a cheaper, better quality product and its not from Ireland why would i waste my hard earned money?
 
The labels that annoy me are the ones that are true but misdirect you, what i mean is a 0% fat yoghurt so it suggests that it's healthy but although it's fat free it's loaded with sugar
 
Ciaraella said:
The labels that annoy me are the ones that are true but misdirect you, what i mean is a 0% fat yoghurt so it suggests that it's healthy but although it's fat free it's loaded with sugar
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Yep, fat free special breakfast cerial that's loaded with sugar and salt or OTC drugs which say "no other pain relief acts faster" which actually means "This is a generic drug and while you are paying for the brand name it's actually exactly the same as all the other stuff on the shelf beside it".
 
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I agree that a lot of labelling is misleading. However I still believe that some things are indeed more 'greener' than others. From a marketing point of view there is a customer segment that do indeed want to buy something genuinely green and will pay for it. I think it's a question of knowing a bit more about what you're buying and not relying on labelling. The one that annoys me the most is the labelling about calories, it's on the front of nearly everything and says for example 10% fat but in small letters that's 10% of your Receommended Daily Allowance, the thing itself is actually 50% fat. That's so misleading it shouldn't be allowed but it's everywhere.
 
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