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by nazgulnarsil
5668 days ago
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how do you think organic food started? people decided that the FDA's labels for what is and is not acceptable was too granular so they created their own certification based on their own values. I would argue that government regulation lowers quality in general because it creates an overhead for any competing entity. Consider if the government created a "free milk" program and payed for it with taxes. Instead of suppliers competing for the many quality levels that consumers are interested in the vast majority now only cater to one quality level: that set by regulation. What is easier to game? one customer (the regulator) or millions of competing customers? |
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And now that there is in fact a government regulation, one cannot.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/nop
> What is easier to game? one customer (the regulator) or millions of competing customers?
I'm not sure what you're asking here. It's quite clear to me that one regulatory body, which can hire inspectors and food-testers and use economies of scale to regulate an entire industry, is much less easy to fool than individuals purchasing milk, who cannot cost-effectively hire inspectors and food-testers and thus cannot evaluate the quality of the product AT ALL.