Gourman: The town delays

Phrase that we have heard since our childhood, whose connotation we intuit, although we cannot give a clear and precise explanation of its meaning. We will not find its definition in any formal text, but we know what it means. We understand that it refers to someone whose thoughts or actions are rooted in archaic dogmas, beliefs, superstitions or mental processes worthy of dim-witted minds, perhaps the product of fear of the unknown, of the future or of experiencing outside the security of what is established, as well this prevents or delays prosperity and development.

I think there are few phrases that better define many of the public institutions that are behind the industry that concerns us, gastronomy and restaurants. There are many examples. Sanitary records is a classic. Instead of the responsible institution having automatic homologation agreements with first world countries, or at least with the few from which 80% of our imports come, it requires that any new imported product go through a process that can take six months, collecting the required information, and cost at least $1,500. Let’s assume that you want to open a Vietnamese food restaurant and that you require 10 ingredients that do not exist in the market, sauces, pasta, etc. If you start today, and have very patient and diligent people in Hanoi working to submit the required information, you may get the health records that would allow you to import the supplies, in September, after paying the state $9,000 and spending another $6,000 on procedures and signatures. Would you put the Vietnamese restaurant?

A food importer recently tried to sample 12 new products with no commercial value, weighing 12 kilos, inside his 40,000-pound container of food. Within another ten requirements, the authority requested a market study that justifies such a need. Ecuador continues to charge total taxes on imported liquor that are equivalent to 70% of its cost, depending on the alcoholic strength, and we continue to have a labor regime for the gastronomy and tourism industry, backwards people.

An Israeli company has just announced the production of the world’s first fully synthetic honey, created 100% in the laboratory, without the intervention of a single bee. Another, experimenting with meat generated in the laboratory, has announced that it has managed to reduce its production cost by 400%, being ready perhaps in a year to go on the market competitively, and could be a very effective weapon for reducing famine in poor countries. .

Would the reader believe these advances in Ecuador possible? Could these companies with the backward people? (EITHER)