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stevenehrbar) wrote2011-06-05 11:37 am
stevenehrbar) wrote2011-06-05 11:37 am
Annoyed at the world.
22 people are dead and hundreds are hospitalized because an inexpensive food safety technology, first developed sixty years ago and repeatedly proven safe, is discouraged to the point of near-prohibition by government regulations in the EU.
In a sane world, people would point to the massive public health benefits of universal government-mandated food irradiation as one of the arguments against letting the free market have free run to make its own decisions. In this one, it's a great "government failure" counterexample to people who talk about "market failure".
In a sane world, people would point to the massive public health benefits of universal government-mandated food irradiation as one of the arguments against letting the free market have free run to make its own decisions. In this one, it's a great "government failure" counterexample to people who talk about "market failure".