Uniform standards for the Certification of Food Products as Organic, I understand, was introduced in U.S. only in 1990 and the following year in the EU. Fairtrade was launched in 1988 and standard certification was introduced in 2009.
For the purpose of this blog post, the web has provided me with more knowledge on the subjects than I had known before. They both are titles that I had assumed the standard without actually knowing what it means – in exact detail as to standards.
So before the adoption and implementation of uniform standards, any company could claim to be ‘organic’ by their standard which might differ from another – and if their standard differed from mine as a consumer, that was just a matter lost in translation.
For the purpose of this blog post, the web has provided me with more knowledge on the subjects than I had known before. They both are titles that I had assumed the standard without actually knowing what it means – in exact detail as to standards.
So before the adoption and implementation of uniform standards, any company could claim to be ‘organic’ by their standard which might differ from another – and if their standard differed from mine as a consumer, that was just a matter lost in translation.
It appears that ‘ethically sourced’ is not yet certified and is, somewhat, at the discretion of the company.
When I saw this sign in the English Market earlier today, I thought that there were two possibilities.
Maybe the chocolate is not ethnically sourced but there was a desire to get aboard the ‘ethically sourced bandwagon’ and so a deliberate decision was made to use the word ‘ethically’ rather than ‘ethnically’. Many will not spot the odd word. Most of those who do will assume a typo.
But having read of lack of standardisation regarding ‘ethically sourced’, I do not think it is a deliberate typo – just a normal typo.
When I saw this sign in the English Market earlier today, I thought that there were two possibilities.
Maybe the chocolate is not ethnically sourced but there was a desire to get aboard the ‘ethically sourced bandwagon’ and so a deliberate decision was made to use the word ‘ethically’ rather than ‘ethnically’. Many will not spot the odd word. Most of those who do will assume a typo.
But having read of lack of standardisation regarding ‘ethically sourced’, I do not think it is a deliberate typo – just a normal typo.
p.s. I like the ‘Love & Laughter’
