Leave everything to the free market, you end up with horse meat in your burgers!
By urbandekay
@urbandekay (18278)
9 responses
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
16 Feb 13
And in the free market people who are unsatisfied with the product can go to a competitor who doesn't mislabel things.
Your implication is that only in a free market would you be lied to. Do you really think that socialist and communist governments are honest with the people?
@urbandekay (18278)
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16 Feb 13
Why do you set up a false dichotomy of free market of communism?
all the best, urban
@urbandekay (18278)
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16 Feb 13
Sorry, I meant to write,
Why do you set up a false dichotomy between the free market and communism?
all the best, urban
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
16 Feb 13
Then people can balk at the idea, refuse to give the horsemongers business, and the free market thus dictates a return to happier meats, like kangaroo or crocodile.
@urbandekay (18278)
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16 Feb 13
Once that non-free market organisation has exposed the truth
all the best, urban
@urbandekay (18278)
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16 Feb 13
Except we have here a concrete example of the fraud and corruption that is rife in any unregulated free market system. Your suggestion is mere theory.
all the best, urban
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
16 Feb 13
Yeah. Bound to have a shortcut along every path. So always best to have guards on every path, following every person to ensure no one takes it.
Good thing for that non-free market organization, too. Now 4,102 new regulations can be passed, a new inspection schedule can be created, more burning hoops can be set up to jump through. That organization grows. The other free market organizations pay for it.
All works out in the end.
Because nothing or no one but the non-free market organization could ever handle such a dastardly issue as a shoddy business serving up the descendants of Mr. Ed.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
26 Feb 13
Leave everything to the government and you'll be begging for horsemeat to eat.
@urbandekay (18278)
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27 Feb 13
How typical that you see this, which is a argument against an unregulated free market as one for abolition of a free market
all the best, urban
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
27 Feb 13
You say that as if it is a bad thin? Glad you recognize who and what I am.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
27 Feb 13
*thing
btw...in your OP, you did not say 'unregulated'.
@crossbones27 (49703)
• Mojave, California
19 Feb 13
The only way I have heard to be totally safe is grow your own food. Except for many of us that is kind of hard to do considering the lack of yard space we have. Some may be able to grow some food but they are never going to be able to live off of what they grow themselves. Plus in this world we live in, many of us jist do not have time to do these things.
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
19 Feb 13
There's yet another angle...
In the absence of taxpayer funded regulatories, activism will take over. Just give us a weekend screening on Four Corners & on every news channel & we'll shut the whole damn lot down inside of a week. The last time we did this - didn't really do a proper job of it, but it was something, we cut meat sales nation-wide by 15% in a week. Whole butcheries went out of business over night. Whole meat export industries closed down, never to return again. Allied industries shut down & sacked workers who have found more honest jobs.
If you ask me, it's just as well for the industry the regulatories are there or such industries wouldn't exist & certainly wouldn't be profitable. The most efficient meat production stands at about 0.1%. If it weren't for huge government subsidies (over $20 billion a year in the US), these industries wouldn't survive. Manufacturing industries operating at about 30% effiency are being forced to shut down nearly every day here. Talk about a level playing field!!! Ironically, it's us activists who keep the regulatories in check, but they wouldn't be game to tell you that.
@JohnRok1 (2051)
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16 Feb 13
Her Majesty the Queen doe not need to emulate Richard III for two reasons:
1. All she needs to do is shop at Tesco, and
2. As fish for the Royal Table is caught fresh from the sea or rivers, you won't hear her say "I could murder a Princes!" (the "a" is a hesitation).
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
18 Feb 13
Not to worry, there's something for the left too! 
http://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Canned-Unicorn-Meat/dp/B004CRYE2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361160079&sr=8-1&keywords=unicorn+meat
http://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Canned-Unicorn-Meat/dp/B004CRYE2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361160079&sr=8-1&keywords=unicorn+meat
@mrscallands22 (2851)
• United States
17 Feb 13
I read something about that on Facebook earlier today. The horsemeat was found in a burger in London, supposedly they state that nearly 1/3 of the burger was horsemeat. That's happening in other places over there, too.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
17 Feb 13
It is really a shocking thing.Marketing economy doesn't mean let things drift.
