Food fight Upfront essay by Aidan Arbona

In the most recent article of Upfront magazine by scholastic a topic which had been brought up was if other countries should be allowed to market items that were named after or for a place in Europe where it was made. They also think that by banning American companies from using the European names on their products that European food companies will be able to record better sales in America. These presumptions are both wrong as most of the founders of the companies that make these foods in America were immigrants from that country who brought with them their recipes. Also as studies have shown Americans are baragain hunters and American foods will always be cheaper to buy than European foods.

In the late 1800's millions of people started immigrating to America. Many of these people came from European nations, bringing with them their culture. So the people producing these foods in America more often than naught were taught these recipes from their parents   and then decided to sell them for a living eventually making their small business a mass produced monster.

Also most Americans love deals. This is shown by the sales of mass produced foods and dinks such as "Budweiser" and "Bud Lite". These two beers have certainly never been respected as the best beers on the planet yet the Budweiser company according to Forbes.com is worth more than $20,000,000,000. This is because when compared to import beers each package of Budweiser is much cheaper. This is because of import taxes which raise the price of imports generally by around 10%. Plus State taxes so a once five dollar beer is now a seven dollar beer.

In conclusion if the European Union made America ban the use of putting European names on American foods they are disrespecting their family which immigrate to America, they are also putting themselves at a great financial risk as Nobody would buy their product over an American product. To round things off as Senator Tammy Baldwin states"Frankly...some of our Wisconsin processors are making better forms of [cheese] products than the home countries.