Edwird
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I agree. We as consumers have the responsibility to hold them accountable and make certain they are prosecuted, All good and well, but the notion of responsible consumers relies upon a corresponding notion of responsible national media, which we don't have. Parents are busy taking the kids here and there, feeding them, etc. I can tell you from personal experience as a non-parent, it still takes a lot of digging to weed out out the wheat from chaff of information promulgated as such. It disheartens me greatly to see so many parents feeding their kids sugar saturated crap for breakfast every day, but the supposedly responsible thing to do is to just 'get on with life,' which means just taking the norm as presented by the advert-directed media at face value and putting the better effort of concern in directing kids to that purpose. Who want's to be a 'radical' with the kids? I could actually agree with that, were it not for the mega-conglomerate media's selective and net-earnings-directed determination for the masses as to what constitutes 'radical' in the first place. People get food poisoned by burger chain burgers all the time. Once somebody gets sick from organic fresh spinach or organic unpasteurized apple juice, the media makes it headline news. It IS news, because it happens so seldom. The point is that food poisoning from meat is a lot more common, so not newsworthy. quote:
Free markets, who knows? We haven't had anything even close to that in well over a century. Everyone has their notions about what constitutes "free market." My reading of what has been considered 'free market' in the last 40 years or so considers that the best and only proper regulation is that as obtained by the market itself. In effect, so-called "self regulation." But given historical events, form at least back to 5,000 years ago, lack of any external control over whatever markets as existed at the time has resulted in some disaster or another, without fail.
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