The gummy bear came over the mountain
By Péter MARTON This recent ARD report about German gummy bear maker Haribo is a must watch for those interested in where components of different products that may be part of our lives are sourced from. Normally you find things once you search for them. Here the searching may come after the finding as the findings presented in the report may lead to some soul-searching in the end... All those cute little gummy bears you have eaten. They. Are. Not. Coming. Back. There are all sorts of issues here. Gummy bears being made of up to 46% sugar, to start with. And then. Dreadful conditions in a supplier's pig farm, inside Germany, so you don't need to go all inter- and transnational to run into first-rate horror along supply/value chains. The pigs are not simply held in dire conditions. These are conditions that make you wonder if the owner of the pig farm actually hates these animals. That's where at least some of the gelatin in the gummy bears is coming from. And...