1. What's the missing word?
a blanket ___
a partial ___
impose a ___
a travel ___
____ the bomb
___ned fom driving
What things can be banned?
Read infographic here: Banned Foods
2. What is your reaction? Which was the most surprising ban?
3. Do you agree?
a) France's ketchup ban is typical French anti-Americanism.
b) Banning food on sanitary grounds always makes good sense.
c) Banning genetically modified food is taking us back to the dark ages.
d) US food regulations are not very rigorous.
e) Singaporeans live in an outrageously draconian society.
f) Singapore's law on chewing gum should be adopted everywhere!
g) Don't eat farmed salmon.
h) I'd eat properly prepared fugo - it's on my bucket list.
i) Bans only encourage local enterprise.
4. What food bans exist in your country? Who benefits from them?
5. Would you like to see something banned? How would you go about doing it?
6. Do you know anyone who has campaigned to have something banned?
7. Do you know any examples where a ban on an imported product has created opportunities for local industry?
8. Are you a globalist in your outlook, or more of a localist?
9. Do you believe in individuals boycotting goods/services from companies/countries who offend their sensibilities?
10. Outside of bans, do politicians in your country promote buying domestically-produced products? Have there been any campaigns to promote home-made goods? How successful were they?
11. Following a trade dispute between your country and France, your government has announced a trade embargo on French goods. Your friends no longer buy French, do you follow their example?