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> What's next? Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations? So... Soylent? >Disrupting the medicine-industry... So... Theranos?

• krschultz 10y ago
  Only this would be worse. Someone can choose to buy Soylent or use Theranos for themselves and no one else gets hurt. If you a person buys a crappy self driving car system it could kill me, a totally unrelated person. I don't care how much of a libertarian you are, that's exactly the reason why we have regulations.
  • wolfgke 10y ago
    > I don't care how much of a libertarian you are Also ask how risk-averse/-taking the other side is.
  • M_Grey 10y ago
    I agree with you, I'm just pointing out that we're already in the age of profitable, harmful bullshit. As for me, I'm not one of those deluded fools who believes in the law of jungle, and that I wouldn't be dog food in that jungle.
    • hash-set 10y ago
      The law of the jungle is fine, but it won't preclude a shitty self-driving car from crashing through your living room and killing one of your kids. It's one thing to suffer harm to yourself, it is quite another to go through losing a child to something like that. I know, randomness, blah blah blah.
• bertil 10y ago
  Technically, Soylent abides by regulations: they sell flaxseed mixed with peas and oat (I think: I’m in Europe and eat Huel, which has mostly those). None of those are not well-known food sources. There are no regulation about claiming that eating nothing but that is safe; they should (at least, Huel does) have the recommended daily doses of each major molecule on the bag.
  • M_Grey 10y ago
    I'm thinking more about their recent recalls and stoppage.
    • djrogers 10y ago
      There's no indication that those were related to not following existing food production regulations...
      • M_Grey 10y ago
        There's no indication, period, but it would be one of the safer assumptions.
        • givinguflac 10y ago
          No, it's just a wrong assumption. They're still selling the pre-made liquid, they just stopped their bars and powder products proactively, even though they couldn't reproduce the issue in testing. Do you even know anything about their production methods?
          • clhodapp 10y ago
            > Do you even know anything about their production methods? Hence the purpose of regulations...
        • Aloha 10y ago
          Food Allergy seems to be a much more likely cause to me.