To continue with the argument of “the market will self-regulate and people wouldn’t buy that brand anymore so they would never do it again”
Okay but how many people died, how many people are suffering long-term effects, and what’s stopping them from adding a different deadly thing to our food?
Market self regulation assumes informed consumers that are smart enough to know what things mean. Also it assumes healthy competition and companies that are competing to make the best product at the chrapest price. It ALSO assumes brand lotalty isn’t a thing, and consumers are judging things purely objectively.
Like, i understand the idea, but in practice there are a ton of caveats.
Regulations are written in blood
Very true.
But, even so I don’t think all regulations need to be a thing unless there’s a specific point reached.
Like, if 1 in 100 million die due to some issue every 10 years, do we need a regulation that hinders the comfort/productivity of tens of thousands?
Not sure where that point is, but some regulations do seem pretty ridiculous to me.
