[Tagging] Tagging of food declarations in restaurants

[Niels Elgaard Larsen]

På Fri, 5 Nov 2021 20:21:33 +0000
Toggenburger Lukas <Lukas.Toggenburger at fhgr.ch> skrev:
>Dear list
>
>tl;dr I would like to develop a tagging scheme specifying origin and
>production methods for food (primarily meat) served in restaurants, as
>well as some surrounding concepts.

I am more interested in the animal welfare aspect.

In Denmark we have an animal welfare label marked as 1 to 3 green
hearts:  https://bedre-dyrevelfaerd.dk/servicemenu/english/

It is currently mostly used on individual products in supermarkets.

But it can be used by restaurants if they use suppliers that have the
label.
https://bedre-dyrevelfaerd.dk/for-virksomheder/dyrevelfaerdsmaerket-paa-spisesteder/

This is a Danish system. But it would be great if we could generalize
it. 

E.g. 
diet:animal_welfare=DK:3_hearts


>2. For all food: The **country of origin/production**. Larger regions
>such as "European Union" and "South America" should also be possible
>to tag. (I do assume that legally all food has only one country of
>origin.) [1]


You can buy honey declared as "mix of honey from countries in and
outside EU"

>8. For animals and animal products: Whether the animal was bred/kept
>in a **keeping that is not legal** where the food is sold. [7]

I find that less useful. That it is not legal in another country does
not necessarily mean that is is worse. It could just be incompatible.
I.e. it could be that some kind of meat from country A would have been
illegal if produced in country B and the same kind of meat from country
B would have been illegal if produced in county A.

And if I travel and eat in a Swiss restaurant I would not know what it
meant if something was not legal in Switzerland. 

>## Example 5: GMO, irradiation, growth stimulants
>
>GMO-beef, that has been irradiated, having received hormonal and
>non-hormonal growth-stimulants:
>
>    food:beef:gmo=yes
>    food:beef:irradiated=yes
>    food:beef:growth_stimulants=hormonal; non-hormonal
>
>If no GMOs, irradiation and growth stimulants were used, we can set
>their keys to `no`.


So if you tag food:beef:gmo=yes on a restaurant
does that mean that all the beef on the menu has stimulants?

I think gmo_free would be better.