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Re:The EU’s disputed system of geographical indications is t... by alkonaut on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:53AM (#27650827)
> The customer gets the exact same thing, only made somewhere else.

That’s not exactly the same thing: buying one item gives support to producers in the original location while buying the other product doesn’t. I’m sure an American company (or Australian Greeks) could make a better product, but the actual physical product itself is just half the story.

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Re:The EU’s disputed system of geographical indications is t... by golemotron on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:39AM (#27652420)
Except when the 'local thing' is a local business owned and/or financed by a multinational. It's the easiest way to get around such things and it happens all the time.
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Re:The EU’s disputed system of geographical indications is t... by alkonaut on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:14PM (#27652746)
It’s not the small scaledness or local ownership that’s protected. It’s the tradition of making X in the region where X is traditionally made, and some of the how it’s made. Nothing else.
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