| "You can't put a gun to someone's head and force them to love you. You can't get blood from a turnip. And draconian measures generally fail to get real results." I might be willing to stipulate the above. However there is a different mechanism at work when actors in the system have skin in the game. And so, I will see your Temple Grandin (who I admire) and raise you a Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Specifically: these producers need to be feeding their own children and raising their own families with these very same products. Ironically, wealthy-global-north consumers (like foodco CEOs) are almost certainly not consumers of infant formula[1] (or lunchables or scent sprays or Monster drinks) so it is difficult to establish "skin in the game". ... and therein lies a tremendous amount of information. It should give consumers pause to learn that these products are not used - and likely disdained - by the stakeholders that produce them.[2][3] [1] https://qz.com/1034016/the-class-dynamics-of-breastfeeding-i... [2] http://www.freebooks8.com/Fiction_Library/3308/37.html [3] “I don’t think my kids have ever eaten a Lunchable,” she told me. “They know they exist and that Grandpa Bob invented them. But we eat very healthfully.” |