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No. That market is too small to target. Overregulation is affecting consumer choices.

by betaby 2y ago

grugagag 2y ago
And without overregulation those consumer choices wouldn’t be be easily faked?
akira2501 2y ago
Overregulation + Monopolization is the 1-2 punch in operation here. It's the only reason you'd even think to do something like this. "Fine. Now _everything_ has Sesame in it. What are you going to do? _Settle_ with us?"
- mensetmanusman 2y ago
  How to fight economies of scale…
- ApolloFortyNine 2y ago
  Too far the other way will likely lead to a pseudo ban on Sesame seeds. It just wouldn't be worth the risk. Or the cost of it will get pushed on the 99.999% who won't die from a single Sesame seed. I know there's a lot of things that work like this (handicap ramps for instance) but if you don't draw a line somewhere it does get overly expensive.
zeroonetwothree 2y ago
There are many small bakeries that offer a variety of options. It seems silly to confidently assert this as you do.
- alwa 2y ago
  That seems like a sensible point to me. At some level, let the Bimbos of the world have the sesame-agnostic mass market—that only strengthens the case for niche competitors who serve this specific market. If sesame is in fact poison for a specific subgroup, this shifts the mass market option from “eh it’s probably fine, how often does cross-contamination happen” to “definitely poison for me, I’d better seek an alternative.”
jjallen 2y ago
It’s over regulation to everyone who doesn’t have sesame allergies. It’s lifesaving to those that do. Somehow bakeries in Switzerland are doing just fine with sesame being a declared allergen and keeping them separate but American ones just can’t be bothered to handle a life threatening ingredient thoroughly carefully.
- isoprophlex 2y ago
  A life-threatening allergy is fine and all but will someone please think of the profit margins?!
  - akoboldfrying 2y ago
    Almost every physical object you use in your everyday life, including the building you live in and the clothes you wear, was created by someone who cared about the profit margins on that thing, and didn't care about you personally at all. If you want to propose a different system for creating the stuff in the world, it might pay to look at the success rates of other systems people have already tried.
- john_the_writer 2y ago
  It's a scale difference. If you're making bread product for a million people you have a massive factory.. And nuts be there
  - portaouflop 2y ago
    Of course, everything weird and whacky about the US can be explained because it’s just so much bigger - you wouldn’t understand coming from such a tiny country.
    - robertlagrant 2y ago
      The psychology of this comment aside, I don't think any country is so small it can't fit a massive factory in it. Unless you're writing from Vatican City, perhaps?

No. That market is too small to target. Overregulation is affecting consumer choices.

by betaby 2y ago

No. That market is too small to target. Overregulation is affecting consumer choices.

grugagag 2y ago

And without overregulation those consumer choices wouldn’t be be easily faked?

akira2501 2y ago

Overregulation + Monopolization is the 1-2 punch in operation here. It's the only reason you'd even think to do something like this. "Fine. Now _everything_ has Sesame in it. What are you going to do? _Settle_ with us?"

mensetmanusman 2y ago
How to fight economies of scale…
ApolloFortyNine 2y ago
Too far the other way will likely lead to a pseudo ban on Sesame seeds. It just wouldn't be worth the risk. Or the cost of it will get pushed on the 99.999% who won't die from a single Sesame seed. I know there's a lot of things that work like this (handicap ramps for instance) but if you don't draw a line somewhere it does get overly expensive.

zeroonetwothree 2y ago

There are many small bakeries that offer a variety of options. It seems silly to confidently assert this as you do.

alwa 2y ago
That seems like a sensible point to me. At some level, let the Bimbos of the world have the sesame-agnostic mass market—that only strengthens the case for niche competitors who serve this specific market. If sesame is in fact poison for a specific subgroup, this shifts the mass market option from “eh it’s probably fine, how often does cross-contamination happen” to “definitely poison for me, I’d better seek an alternative.”

jjallen 2y ago

It’s over regulation to everyone who doesn’t have sesame allergies. It’s lifesaving to those that do. Somehow bakeries in Switzerland are doing just fine with sesame being a declared allergen and keeping them separate but American ones just can’t be bothered to handle a life threatening ingredient thoroughly carefully.

isoprophlex 2y ago
A life-threatening allergy is fine and all but will someone please think of the profit margins?!
- akoboldfrying 2y ago
  Almost every physical object you use in your everyday life, including the building you live in and the clothes you wear, was created by someone who cared about the profit margins on that thing, and didn't care about you personally at all. If you want to propose a different system for creating the stuff in the world, it might pay to look at the success rates of other systems people have already tried.
john_the_writer 2y ago
It's a scale difference. If you're making bread product for a million people you have a massive factory.. And nuts be there
- portaouflop 2y ago
  Of course, everything weird and whacky about the US can be explained because it’s just so much bigger - you wouldn’t understand coming from such a tiny country.
  - robertlagrant 2y ago
    The psychology of this comment aside, I don't think any country is so small it can't fit a massive factory in it. Unless you're writing from Vatican City, perhaps?