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Have Child Food Allergy Sufferers Found Their Erin Brockovich?
I do think the perception of an increase in food allergies is more likely due to the increase in media coverage. We already know the feeling that we really need to find something to post, imagine the urgency felt by those with the overhead of a television studio. It's good for people to understand the problem as it exists, but I think there can be a temptation to make it seem worse than it is
Bathtub Cheese Lands Couple in Jail
Actually, we can dispute most regulation.
I fail to see where the regulation would have changed the situation, except perhaps after the fact. It seems to me the so-called legal manufacturers are more comfortable coming forward after they poison someone. Meanwhile the "illegal" manufacturers are afraid of prosecution; they stop selling (no-one wants dead customers) but they don't want to draw attention to the issue either.
With the bagged spinach and other "legal" outbreaks, people still get poisoned. The regulation merely makes everyone more comfortable.
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Bananas could be cheaper because they actually take fewer resources to grow. It may be that the price in the grocery store in some loose way reflects the costs of those resources, and thus also quietly points to the most environmentally responsible choice as well.
The locavores overestimate the effects of transportation. As with most pop-environmentalism, they are probably making things worse, not better.
Hasn't anyone learned anything from the ethanol disaster yet?
There's food riots and hunger down that road paved with good intentions.