But of course the free market is meant to regulate itself. The hell with the fact that maximizing profits makes corporate culture criminogenic in nature.
There comes a point where the expression of one's populist ideology becomes child-like in its absurdity.
One need not look very far on this website to find such an example.
The big, conspiratorial, and evil "beef industry" isn't going to do anything to jeapordize the public's perception of the safety of the product it produces.
People who weave intricate conspiracy theories about "big corporations" that gleefully risk the gullible mass of human sheep with BSE contamination simply because they wish to "maximize profits" are exhibiting a level of incandescent stupidity that is simply breathtaking.
If my customer simply needs to walk an extra 10 feet down the aisle to purchase chicken, pork, emu, fish, or whatever the fuck.....it's not like I'm holding them hostage. And more often than not, my customer is a fairly ignorant son of a bitch whose understanding of BSE and its transmission is completely informed (if at all) by the 500 - 1,000 word bag of shit fed to him by his popular culture journalist.
He may not know much, but he knows a "corporation" is involved---and that's good enough for him.
No more thought required.
Vote Obama.
Oh shit, I need to pay my gas bill.
My foot itches.
I wish that bitch in the cube next to me would turn her radio down.
God I hate Clear Channel stations.
For any number of reasons I've hashed and re-hashed on this site--over and over again---the risk of "Mad Cow" disease in this country is statistically negligible.
You don't eat the cattle of the age that contract the disease.
And unless you're into some really exotic, nasty shit---you generally don't even eat the tissue that contains the disease.
A federal law requiring the industry to test every slaughtered animal for BSE makes about as much common and economic sense as hand-sorting every truckload of coal for diamonds.
This is a media-generated crisis that perpetuates itself due to the ignorance of the media consumer and the complete lack of ethics exhibited by people who practice professional journalism.
Pretty much any stupid fucking organism with the ability to breathe involuntarily possesses the ability to use a hyper-inflated concept of risk-aversion as a premise to an argument for or against something.
In fact, that goes along ways towards explaining the continued existence of contemporary, left-wing ideology and its domestic mouthpiece--the Democrat party.
Your assignment is to go find me a deeply personal and heart-wrenching story of an American family that has been torn apart due to the death and destruction wrought by Mad Cow disease.
Surely there must be hundreds.
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The corporations knew---and they lied to maximize profits.
Now families are struggling to put their lives back together.
Next, on 20/20.
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