According to the supermarket, the bodycam on the shop floor differs from the standard bodycams used by the police and NS. There, the camera records images that can later be used as evidence in court. The bodycam Dirk van den Broek will use is a small camera with a screen on which misbehaving customers will see themselves.
If a difficult customer threatens to create an unsafe situation, the employee can turn on the bodycam and confront the customer with the images. According to Dirk, experiences in the industry show that this can have a de-escalating effect. As with other cameras in the store, images and sound are only stored and used when necessary, the supermarket said.
Dirk already tested the bodycams last year. The company will start using the cameras in 40 stores. “We have always used camera surveillance in the stores for prevention,” said director Dirk van den Broek. “For us, the body cameras are an addition to the workplace to quickly de-escalate threatening situations. Because every incident is one too many for our colleagues and customers.”
https://nltimes.nl/2024/04/25/supermarket-dirk-equipping-staff-body-cams-privacy-watchdog-concerned
You think you're just eating "cheese"?
Think again.
90% of the American cheese on store shelves right now is made with a lab-engineered fake rennet called FPC — fermentation-produced chymosin.
And it was originally developed and patented by Pfizer in 1990. Yeah, that Pfizer.
Here's how they did it: They took the gene for chymosin (the key clotting enzyme from a calf's stomach), spliced it into Aspergillus Niger — black mold — using CRISPR gene-editing tech, then let the mold ferment in giant vats like some dystopian bio-reactor. The result? A synthetic enzyme that's cheaper, faster, and more consistent than the real thing.
Big Food loved it. No more baby calves. No supply limits. Just endless, uniform cheese bricks rolling off the line. FDA called it "substantially equivalent" to real rennet and gave it GRAS status with zero long-term human safety studies — just a 90-day rat trial. Sound familiar?
The worst part? This stuff isn't even listed properly.
On ingredient labels it hides behind ...