For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.
For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.
We have some consumer safety laws from the era where companies literally put poisons in food, but today most of our protection comes from the threat of lawsuits.
It is not perfect, for instance Monsanto’s round-up was on the market for 25 years, presumably scientifically “safe” before a plaintiff was able to win a case proving they were harmed. This is why the culture-wars “litigious society” bullshit is so dangerous. The justice system is our last resort for protection.
There are problems in every system, but when people hear about problems in the USian system, for some reason they think the whole system is worthless vs. the very real protections we have, and the people who died before we got them.
I would love it if ingredients had to be proven safe before they were used. It would make us so much healthier. But like with Monsanto it is not the end-all-be-all, and we need lawsuits as well.
Everything you say is sane and accurate. The devil is always in the details. When when you dig down into these conspiracy theories you find surprising truths but also a lot of nonsense.
True that