Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take

• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, and 0,0% beer in Germany can have up to 0,04999…% alcohol while unlabeled anything may have up to 1.2% (fruit juice often has like 0.3% or so)

  de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkoholfrei

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  • Mentando@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was under the impression that “alkoholfrei” / “alcohol free” could be up to 0.5%, whereas 0.0% really needed to be without any alcohol. Your link is only about the first case, if I read it correctly. They do state though that “without alcohol” should really be without.

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s no deception: <0.05 rounds to the two significant digits 0.0 (0.050001 would round to 0.1)

      It’s impossible to have absolutely no alcohol in something that had sugar and living micro-organisms in it at any point: e.g. fruits and therefore juice have alcohol.

      That why you don’t need to label anything with less than 1.2% alcohol. You can only be sure that something has less when it says 0.0% or „alkoholfrei“.

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• cosmos8188@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Agreed, but also including teenagers.

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  • Fawkes@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So 19yr olds shouldn’t be advertised to? What’s the cut off?

    I actually fully agree that all advertisement is awful and support removing it entirely.

    But lacking that, I don’t see an issue with advertising universally. And if we’re going to restrict advertisement to children, target actual children. “Teenagers” includes people legally old enough to join the military and kill other humans.

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    • cosmos8188@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Honestly, you’re right, but the issue is deeper than that. Ads like this indoctrinate people that aren’t even children - this includes teenagers past 13 and even adults of varying stages.

      Advertising harmful drugs shouldnt be done at all - but in the meantime, teenagers and even young adults should be except. Also the killing part is a totally different issue.

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      • Fawkes@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sure, but the primary complaint was against a 0% alcohol beer targeted at “Children” by nature of using the term “Under Age.” I have no complaints against wanting to remove advertising, in general, including drug advertisements.

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