>The more established, bigger, unethical companies will crush the "our products don't poison you!" competitors out of existence before they even get started. A

>The more established, bigger, unethical companies will crush the "our products don't poison you!" competitors out of existence before they even get started. And then they'll eat their babies. More realistically though they'll try to buy these companies to get their talent and patents. So in the end you banned the poisonous stuff, people who innovated made a lot of money and everybody's better off. Maybe my hypothesis is overly optimistic but yours is comically grim. Do you think that we shouldn't have banned asbestos or leaded paints? That's exactly the kind of completely dogmatic rant I complained about in my sibling comment. "Things don't work perfectly all the time so let's do absolutely nothing".