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>Think about it. You probably owe your life to regulations ensuring your food is edible, and your medicine isn't poison.

This is just laughable. Yeah, nameless, faceless companies who earn profit from consumers eating and drinking their goods are just going to poison everyone. It's not like they are composed of actual people with friends and families too, right? They want to kill everyone.

Again, show me the greatest historical body-counts being business related, not governmental or politically motivated.



The usual example is Bhopal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

For food poisoning, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal : "A [WHO] spokesman said the scale of the problem proved it was "clearly not an isolated accident, [but] a large-scale intentional activity to deceive consumers for simple, basic, short-term profits."

It's worth looking at the various incidents in the US leading up to the establishment of the FDA, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_beef_scanda...


According to what you linked there, the factory of record was 49% owned by government entities. Is that the "free market" at work?

Some businesses have done bad things. Many more do good things. Not sure what the point is? Do some bad accidents mean the free market doesn't work?

Meanwhile, across the way, HNers are screaming about the Brazillian government enforcing laws regarding WhatsApp...




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