This is why we need government regulation on food products.
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tainted bootstraps
Actually no. Once the food is tainted it's going to be found.
We need government regulation to prevent this kind of thing happening in the first place.
We need government regulation to prevent this kind of thing happening in the first place.
Umm, wot?
This is why we do have it.
Keep doing your grocery shopping at WalMart :) Lots of the frozen veggies are from China. Lucky for us, the milk probably doesn't keep on the trip over the ocean!
Well, not this particular incident but damn it, I'm trying to find a way to blame conservatism here.
Repackaging known tainted food to resell. Gotta love the Chinese food/industrial regulatory system. I am sad for the babies that drink this crap and sicken/die. Perhaps the CEOs/supervisors/decision-makers of the dairies that repackaged the tainted milk should be forced to consume their own tainted products.
The Chinese have a rep for not caring about human life. This is another example.
oftenrong: Well, not this particular incident but damn it, I'm trying to find a way to blame conservatism here.
Free markets. When there are no rules forcing companies to follow basic common-sense practices, they will eventually collapse under their own stupidity. In the meantime, its okay to let those Chinese children die since they have such a big population anyway.
Did I hit all the ugly points? :)
Free markets. When there are no rules forcing companies to follow basic common-sense practices, they will eventually collapse under their own stupidity. In the meantime, its okay to let those Chinese children die since they have such a big population anyway.
Did I hit all the ugly points? :)
spongegirl circleskirt: The Chinese have a rep for not caring about human life. This is another example.
Yep. It just astounds me that they repackaged KNOWN tainted powdered milk for babies and children. Jesus.
Yep. It just astounds me that they repackaged KNOWN tainted powdered milk for babies and children. Jesus.
spongegirl circleskirt: The Chinese have a rep for not caring about human life. This is another example.
TFA: In November, two people were executed for their involvement in the scandal.
TFA: In November, two people were executed for their involvement in the scandal.
jin verde:
Did I hit all the ugly points? :)
Ha! More ugly than pointed. Free markets are more a liberalism thing (for which I blame conservatism...?).
/It's hard out here for a simp.
Did I hit all the ugly points? :)
Ha! More ugly than pointed. Free markets are more a liberalism thing (for which I blame conservatism...?).
/It's hard out here for a simp.
sloth:
TFA: In November, two people were executed for their involvement in the scandal.
You... you read the article? GET HIM!
TFA: In November, two people were executed for their involvement in the scandal.
You... you read the article? GET HIM!
jin verde: Free markets. When there are no rules forcing companies to follow basic common-sense practices,
Errm, China has rules. And they true-death people who break the rules and get caught. They're not exactly a free-market economy, either.
Errm, China has rules. And they true-death people who break the rules and get caught. They're not exactly a free-market economy, either.
The powder should have been destroyed following the 2008 scandal but had been given to the dairy by another company as debt payment.
in lieu of cash will you accept tainted milk powder, lead-based children's toys, or poisoned dog food?
we'll take the tainted milk powder
in lieu of cash will you accept tainted milk powder, lead-based children's toys, or poisoned dog food?
we'll take the tainted milk powder
sloth: Errm, China has rules. And they true-death people who break the rules and get caught. They're not exactly a free-market economy, either.
I know China has rules and are not exactly a free-market economy. I was pointing out the theoretical ugliness of the pure Neoliberal ideal of a Free Market - no rules. No nation has an entirely ideal Free Market. Not even the US, because rules and regulations exist.
I know China has rules and are not exactly a free-market economy. I was pointing out the theoretical ugliness of the pure Neoliberal ideal of a Free Market - no rules. No nation has an entirely ideal Free Market. Not even the US, because rules and regulations exist.
jin verde: I know China has rules and are not exactly a free-market economy. I was pointing out the theoretical ugliness of the pure Neoliberal ideal of a Free Market - no rules. No nation has an entirely ideal Free Market. Not even the US, because rules and regulations exist.
Aren't rules and regulations inherently necessary to the existence of a Free Market? Amongst the preconditions, after all, is the requirement that there be no coercion or force between participants, contractual obligations must be compulsory, and deliberate misinformation must be prohibited. All of those require rules and regulations, as well as a regulatory agency.
Aren't rules and regulations inherently necessary to the existence of a Free Market? Amongst the preconditions, after all, is the requirement that there be no coercion or force between participants, contractual obligations must be compulsory, and deliberate misinformation must be prohibited. All of those require rules and regulations, as well as a regulatory agency.
mikewhy: The powder should have been destroyed following the 2008 scandal but had been given to the dairy by another company as debt payment.
in lieu of cash will you accept tainted milk powder, lead-based children's toys, or poisoned dog food?
we'll take the tainted milk powder
Heads wirr loll.
in lieu of cash will you accept tainted milk powder, lead-based children's toys, or poisoned dog food?
we'll take the tainted milk powder
Heads wirr loll.
oftenrong: +1 one on the if I don't laugh I'll cry principle.
yeah, whoever kept that product around should be taken out back and shot
yeah, whoever kept that product around should be taken out back and shot
jin verde: Yep. It just astounds me that they repackaged KNOWN tainted powdered milk for babies and children. Jesus.
Now, they'll probably repackage it yet again, and ship it to Haiti as donated relief aid.
Now, they'll probably repackage it yet again, and ship it to Haiti as donated relief aid.
jin verde: Free markets. When there are no rules forcing companies to follow basic common-sense practices, they will eventually collapse under their own stupidity. In the meantime, its okay to let those Chinese children die since they have such a big population anyway.
Did I hit all the ugly points? :)
Well, the tainted milk was found and will be pulled. In a free market people are supposed to be smart enough to say 'hey... milk that comes from China has issues... maybe I won't buy it' but people are dumb. If everyone stops buying from a company that company will fail.
Did I hit all the ugly points? :)
Well, the tainted milk was found and will be pulled. In a free market people are supposed to be smart enough to say 'hey... milk that comes from China has issues... maybe I won't buy it' but people are dumb. If everyone stops buying from a company that company will fail.
hornwrecker: Now, they'll probably repackage it yet again, and ship it to Haiti as donated relief aid.
I vaguely recall a recent story about the discovery in New Jersey of some beef that had been frozen since the 1980s. Might have been a dream tho.
I vaguely recall a recent story about the discovery in New Jersey of some beef that had been frozen since the 1980s. Might have been a dream tho.
elebrin: Well, the tainted milk was found and will be pulled. In a free market people are supposed to be smart enough to say 'hey... milk that comes from China has issues... maybe I won't buy it' but people are dumb. If everyone stops buying from a company that company will fail.
Unless they aren't as equally informed as the other players in said free market.
Unless they aren't as equally informed as the other players in said free market.
spongegirl circleskirt: The Chinese have a rep for not caring about human life. This is another example.
Blood libel from a self-proclaimed Jew strikes me as ironic.
Blood libel from a self-proclaimed Jew strikes me as ironic.
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