I'd be curious to see a study that weighs the health costs of too much arsenic, with the health costs of too few calories. It's not intrinsically obvious what t

I'd be curious to see a study that weighs the health costs of too much arsenic, with the health costs of too few calories. It's not intrinsically obvious what the cost/benefit analysis is. Obviously, this assumes that if Haiti doesn't import bad rice from the US, their calories per capita would decrease or cost per calorie increase, which isn't necessarily the case. Also obviously, we should do everything we can to decrease arsenic content for healthier food. It's akin to the problem of our housing standards and regulations that are so high, that we struggle to build low cost housing that satisfies code, so instead tons of people end up living on the street. The perfect is the enemy of the good.