DW still does very limited shortwave in Africa, I guess they’ll be happy to take over time/frequency slots but let’s face it the amount of people that you can only reach via short wave is dwindling, they mostly switched to satellite. They rather feed into the local FM broadcast network, and of course you can stream over the internet.

We have the Common Agricultural Policy which has the quadruple goals of a) keeping the EU, on aggregate, self-reliant while b) simultaneously stabilising domestic production with subsidies because technically it would be cheaper for many producers to buy land abroad and then import, c) avoid crashing other region’s agricultural sector with hyper-efficient production, that’s why occasionally there’s production caps in place, and finally d) environmental and animal husbandry concerns. You can actually get money for letting land fall fallow and stuff, there’s all kinds of fine-grained subsidies when it comes to things like improving barns, it’s a whole shebang.

Just checked and eggs were never subject to production quota regulations, so (aside from product safety and animal husbandry rules) it’s a pretty open market. The pdf linked there shows that we’re massive exporters, notable exception is imports from Ukraine though those are nowhere close to massive. Eyeball-comparing egg production vs. population numbers and assuming every member states eats about as many eggs/capita as the other things look well distributed, DE, FR, NL, PL, ES, and IT over-produce but it’s not like the smaller countries would have no capacity at all. Ukraine would actually fit in with that, also big country, also net exporter.

Overall we have exactly one shortfall: Protein crops. Mostly animal fodder in the form of South American soy, the rest, much smaller portion, is Canadian lentils. Not a desirable situation overall but one the one hand it’s not critical to feeding people (though there’d suddenly be much less meat) and South America really likes the income so the commission is in no hurry to address it. Canada just simply seems to be made for growing lentils, lots of right climate and soils for it, and that in wide flat areas.

Oh, Finnish, EU, this is going to be easy: We have thousands of small gourmet chocolatiers. The big gourmet ones like Domori generally have a “may contain traces” list, but e.g. Bonnat Chocolatiers should be completely allergen-free. Expect 60-100 Euro/kg but the taste is worth the price (at least once in a while), finding a shop that delivers to Finland shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Regarding sauces: Try gelatin as a thickener, boiling it, as happens naturally with glace, so it doesn’t turn into jelly just a thickener. I usually use roux because it’s slightly better than plain starch but gelatin, it just coats the whole mouth. Buckwheat should also be an option for noodles. Modern soba noodles generally contain wheat but traditionally they were pure buckwheat, steamed instead of boiled they’re too brittle to survive that. Ready-made glass noodles should often be gluten-free, best if fried IMO.

And yes you definitely should start a food blog. Restrictions foster creativity every artist knows that. Probably did my best cooking when keeping pretty much keto for “this looks like really good food” reasons, not even nutrition. You can make a cake out of almond/nut flour, carrots, whipped honey and whipped egg, and it’s darn good. Also fills you up after a single slice.

That information is for people with allergies. Not for people without allergies. Which is the distinction that I made, somewhat colloquially (people with allergies will understand the presence of sentiment over lack of nuance), with “running around with an epi pen”. “Standing in the middle of a bakery”.

Are you desperately trying to be offended on behalf of others.

Sorry if this was offensive, I’m not attacking you, I’m attacking the rhetoric, because I know how much more believable it is than my story, but I also know which one is true.

I mentioned the epi pen not really because of epi pen but to make precisely that gluten insensitivity vs. allergy distinction. People who have an actual allergy know, they aren’t the uninformed ones, but I couldn’t tell from your original comment. Back to chocolate: You can have a look at premium chocolate makers, bean-to-bar “the only thing but cocoa in here is sugar” type stuff. More expensive, but certainly also damn good, many only make pure chocolate so there’s no chocolate with crisps and nuts and raisins line to contend with.

The fad thing correlates, in time, with an increase in use of glyphosate to fast-ripen wheat, btw. I don’t think the science is yet in but people with somewhat sensitive stomachs having symptoms when eating traces of glyphosate is not a far-fetched hypothesis, the whole thing is kinda too large to be just a fad.

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Unless you are literally running around with an epi pen because miniscule amounts of allergens could kill you you really don’t need to worry about those. It basically means “produced in a factory that also produces other stuff”. They’re not putting things in there, they can’t 110% rule out that some flour particles made it over from one production line to another. You get more exposure by standing in the middle of a bakery shop.

How about we introduce export tariffs on eggs instead.

They make no secret out of that, where things get dicey is the role of the Porsche/Piëch clan which ate itself back into the company. That’s also where the “close German factories” drive is coming from, they want their dividends so they don’t have to sell stock to cover some credit or the other.

Expropriating Teslas is possible without a change in the constitution but with a simple law, if they, in the individual case, can be considered means of production (Article 15 GG), though compensation is due. To expropriate under Article 14, you’d have to show that it’s for the public good, which would be a very tall order. It would also be possible to extend right-out seizing (without compensation) to traffic misbehaviour other than extreme speeding.

Article 15 has never been applied, though, so besides how generally pointless expropriating Teslas Elon already made his money with is don’t expect anything to happen before Berlin expropriates large landlords (>1000 flats) for real. Parties are doing their best to not follow up on the earlier referendum so right now the organisers are busy writing their own law which then can be referendumed into being directly applicable law.

You know what we should lobby for? Putting sanctions on Elon. In lieu of expropriating, that’d be expensive, just make him divest completely.

Behold! Someone with 20/20 hindsight!

Yeah that was the time where maliciously maligning creeds was made a criminal offence, to stop Lutheran and Catholic preachers alike from inciting people, and religious freedom codified. Fast forward 400 years and Americans are telling us that we’re limiting free speech with that kind of thing while basing their identity on the theocracies of New England which they founded because England wouldn’t let them oppress people at home.

We did not send our best, and it hasn’t gone uphill since. The US slept through the whole Age of Enlightenment. There’s some trappings, sure, and their revolution certainly quoted it a lot, but try to find a trace of Kant anywhere in the US. Just consider the US’s insistence on a punitive criminal system (instead of rehabilitatory) in the light of the Categorical Imperative. Who, in any sensible state of mind, would consider inflicting suffering to be a desirable universal law.

The more recession, the more bankrupt millionaires, the more billionaires will be able to gobble up, the higher the chances (now former) millionaires realise that they have more in common with burger flippers than with billionaires.

No way around accelerationist logic when the system is launching itself against a wall and the bureaucrats responsible for system inertia to work against that are running around like headless chicken.

Tariffs will increase until sanity improves. We (that is, the EU) certainly aren’t going to back down from a trade war.

No. Stop projecting.

Yes. Like I did by telling you to do that instead of preaching from the pulpit, you’re starting to get it.

First comes fodder, then morals. When will US libs understand that. How does it feel there, up on your high horse, telling the pedestrians to stop wearing leather boots they should be vegans?

Try calling for solidarity instead of attacking people for wanting what’s due to every human by sole virtue of being human. Food, shelter, those things aren’t wishes of someone trying to deny the same to others.

note: “Europe” here refers to imported European culture in America

Yeah I was already wondering it’s not like actual Europeans get defensive about our influence. There’s nothing European about WASP(ish) culture, they’re about as European as chuds with Greek statute avatars are Greek: It’s a fetish, a signifier to dangle around in front of one set of people to consider themselves superior, and then hide when they’re facing the Old Continent proper, then it’s “Europoor”, “we pay for your healthcare”, whatnot. It’s a culture which refuses to recognise itself, and thus is forced to define itself in opposition to others, for doing otherwise would imply acknowledging that the cultural highlight of the year, what everyone is talking about for days and weeks on end, what unifies them as a people, are the ads during superbowl. When pressed, then, you point their mind, deliberately or not, to address the question “are you actually European”, and of course they’ll get defensive you’re attacking the charade surrounding the core of their identity. If I were pressed to describe that kind of culture in a single sentence I would choose a single word: Alienation.

Ireland is luring the EU subsidiaries of those companies to Ireland by being, in comparison to other EU countries, a tax haven. Luxembourg does something similar, that’s where e.g. Amazon is.

Without those policies US companies would still have EU subsidiaries as you need to have one to operate in the EU. And a lot more money would stay in the EU, instead of flowing to the US. In short: Trump is complaining that Ireland, to the benefit of US companies, is a traitor to the EU’s tax offices.