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Exactly. Parents of kids who got ill or died should be criminally charged. For some reason, the U.S. doesn't do this under some strange "Haven't they suffered e
by fortran77 3y ago
Exactly. Parents of kids who got ill or died should be criminally charged. For some reason, the U.S. doesn't do this under some strange "Haven't they suffered enough?" legal theory.
If, say, a teacher gave the kids the water, there would have been charges.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoWhat’s the theory for parental liability here? If you buy something at Whole Foods you should be able to assume it won’t kill you.
- denton-scratch 3y agoWhy? Is Whole Foods more blessed than other retail outlets?
- dwaltrip 3y agoI don't know about you, but I usually don't have time to do rigorous testing on every food item I buy from the grocery store. Life is busy these days. /s --- It'd be nice to live in a society where common, basic food and drink products designed to be consumed by humans and sold in your local grocery store have some sort of safety guarantee. E.g. Someone checked for toxic chemicals
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoIf you buy drinking water at any retail outlet you should be able to assume it won't kill you. Obviously.
- denton-scratch 3y agoExactly. My point is: some people seem to elevate Whole Foods to some pedestal, as if the products they sell are somehow healthier than those of other retailers. In fact they sell products made by third-party manufacturers, just like any supermarket. I've never been into a Whole Foods; I imagine they have some stuff that I couldn't get in other shops, and I imagine that everything is marked-up, whether it's exclusive or not, and whether it's fresh or canned. Is that about right?
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoNah I hate Whole Foods. That was just the retail outlet that was mentioned as carrying this. Dunno if it’s even true honestly.
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoI don't think anyone actually thought that Whole Foods was special. It's just the specific store that happened to sell this poison stuff. It could have been Kroger or Food Lion or whatever and OP would still have legitimately said "If you buy something at X you should be able to assume it won’t kill you."
- rsynnott 3y agoIn general, it’s a reasonable assumption, in a developed country, that if you buy water in a shop it should be safe. The obvious liable parties here would be the manufacturer, maybe the retailer, maybe the relevant regulator, maybe the government (for not giving the regulators sufficient powers to deal with this sort of thing upfront). Dunno how you get to the _purchaser_ being liable.
- plagiarist 3y agoI doubt a teacher would have charges because I assume there must be mens rea for this to be a crime. This is not a "haven't they suffered enough" issue. They are idiots paying too much at an actual grocery for what they thought is magic water without rocket fuel in it. They're not intentionally giving bleach to their child or anything like that. The culpability is with the manufacturer.
- infecto 3y agoI doubt they would be charged criminally in any western nation. Not sure what you are thinking.
- asddubs 3y agomaybe if it was one of the listed ingredients, or they bought it from their cousin who makes it in a bathtub in his basement