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What Happens When Pesky Regulations Are Gone?

Mistress Anne

Posted 1:04 pm, 08/30/2024

One might be led to believe that the original poster's point is that a greater number of regulations would have prevented the listeria outbreak recently associated with Boar's Head Meats. My question is this: would more regulation of that particular industry have prevented the outbreak?


According to multiple news outlets including PBS and The New York Times, the processing plant from which the outbreak is thought to have begun had a history of violating already established regulations.

It can be argued that deregulating the meat manufacturing market would encourage other entities to go into meat processing which could give consumers more control of who produces their processed meats. In turn that might force manufacturers to improve both quality and safety because of free market factors.

It is true that certain segments of our population would choose to chance eating "Mouse Based Potted Meat Product" instead of "Premium All Beef Potted Meat Product" because it might be half as expensive with twice the risk of listeria. But, that seems to me to be a self-correcting issue.

The debate continues between those who trust the government to make all the decisions and those who trust people to make their own decisions. In the case at hand, Boar's Head, the largest supplier of deli meats in the US (at least in 2020) felt it had very little to lose by violating existing regulations. Turns out they were right.

BigSal

Posted 11:17 am, 08/30/2024

LOL, Abe, are you serious with that BS?

"At the heart of this effort was a revolutionary promise: For every one new regulation issued, we pledged that two federal regulations would be permanently removed. We not only met that ambitious goal - which, at the time, people said was impossible - we vastly exceeded it. For every one new regulation added, nearly eight federal regulations have been terminated. (Applause.) Been an incredible achievement."

I will let you guess who said it.

Conrad’s Ghost

Posted 11:10 am, 08/30/2024

Trump gave these companies the ability to regulate themselves, right?

How many people die from an average Trump decision?

Abraham Drinkin

Posted 11:07 am, 08/30/2024

No one ever said get rid of all regulations.


No one ever said companies do not need to follow existing regulations.

Now don't you look stupid

BigSal

Posted 10:55 am, 08/30/2024

Ask Boar's Head. Corporate America always looking out for the customers, even if it hurts their profits! Aint that right DB?
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