In the latest episode of ConsEUmer: 💉 Watch out for fake vaccines 🚗 Uber defends its platform workers (w/ Yaël Ossowski) 🛂 Germany introduces new border closures 🌾 The EU reforms agriculture (w/ Kerry Halferty Hardy)
Oxfam’s miscalculations on global wealth
Oxfam regularly releases new reports on inequality and keeps getting it wrong… So let’s revisit an older report to show how the next one is likely to be flawed once again — in an effort to avoid another needless European Parliament debate on inequality. The EU cannot allow itself to get stuck in an endless […]
[Podcast] Oppen Dieren Episod 3: OpenLux
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La valeur des publicités
Avez-vous déjà acheté quelque chose à cause de l’image d’une marque ? Certainement, surtout lorsque l’emballage est très voyant et séduisant. Si nous devions nier que nous répondons à de bonnes publicités, nous pourrions tout aussi bien condamner des millions de départements marketing à l’obscurité, car quelle valeur a le marketing dans un monde d’engourdis. […]
[Video] Interview mam David Wagner
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ConsEUmer podcast / EP12: Alcohol labelling, Private hospitals, and Cryptocurrencies (w/ David Stancel)
The topics in this week’s episode: 🍷 New mandatory labels for alcohol 🏥 Private hospital and pandemic preparedness (w/ Fred Roeder) ☢️ European Parliament groups release new pro-nuclear energy study ₿ Cryptocurrencies as payment systems (w/ David Stancel) You can follow David Stancel on Twitter @dave_stancel.
Red meat is not the enemy
Targeting meat misses the point The leaked EU Beating Cancer Plan layed out that Brussels wants to crack down on red meat, in an effort to reduce cancer in Europe. The European Commission considered dropping marketing subsidies for red and processed meat because of health concerns, but later reverted as it faced backlash. We now […]
Release of new policy note on genetic engineering
I have authored a new policy note for the Consumer Choice Center, on the issue of genetic engineering. You can read the entire document HERE.
EP11: Meat war, Czech food nationalism, and geo-blocking (w/ Ryan Khurana)
In the eleventh episode of ConsEUmer: 🥩 EU wants to restrict red meat 🇨🇿 CZ wants food nationalism 🍔 Veggie-burger fight continues 🚫 Geo-blocking for streaming (w/ Ryan Khurana) Follow Ryan Khurana on Twitter @RyanKhurana February, 4 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
[Video] Diskussioun iwwert de Mindestloun
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Bill Wirtz 