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It is possible there are better ways to regulate booze than having a government do it for you.
by bdunbar 15y ago
It is possible there are better ways to regulate booze than having a government do it for you.
- roc 15y agoAt least in the US, government regulation of food and alcohol was a response to the (in)effectiveness of market-based self-regulation. You can certainly disagree on whether things were all that bad, or that the particular degree of, or programs of, our government regulations are not the best way to do it. But it's not like government forced itself into this position on a whim. Society experienced the alternative to government regulation and decided it wasn't sufficient.
- TDL 15y agoWhen exactly did this happen?
- jared314 15y agoWikipedia references the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#cite_ref-35 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#ci...]
- roc 15y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA#History
- TDL 15y agoI as I understood the history, wasn't the regulatory response after the company settled with families?