do you really know of where all this unsanitary meat is coming from? Go put it in the newspaper! publish it on the internet! Let everyone know! I don't believe people are mindless drones buying up meat that has publicly been declared unsanitary.

The problem is, as is part of history, they DID find out the meat was bad. It WAS huge news. I don't need to repeat myself on how much more possible it is nowadays. And the your point about the very absence of labels would hurt a company on a much larger scale, because there is no way to tell. People will simply stop buying and eating meat, because they don't know! and so overgeneralize. Or, raise their own if they can.

However, as was part of the history surrounding the Upton Sinclair book, the president couldn't eat his breakfast sausages anymore after reading about these conditions. Would he have still bought them if he wasn't eating them? The purpose of a for profit company is to make money. Will they make money if their unsanitary practices are made public? I'm agreed that it was a bad thing for meat companies to do this. However, I definitely do not agree that the solution is govt regulation.

Amen and amen. Its never right.

"Lassez-faire is not an ultimate truth. If it were, then we would have private police, unregulated tobacco, and the supermarket could sell you anything that looked like meat without any regulations at all. That is a recipe for a crime and public health disaster." even libertarians like me believe in a govt police force to protect the rights of others and have the basic framework of govt.. Who is going to shop at a supermarket that sold bad meat if the public is properly informed? The age of the internet only spells more reason for less government regulation and more dependence on the natural forces of free market economics, not less. Remember AOL? Liberals loved Vincent Ferrari but unfortunately for them, he is a prime example of the internet enhancing the power of free market economics. http://consumerist.com/2006/06/the-best-thing-we-have-ever-posted-reader-tries-to-cancel-aol.html

There are a lot more levels it is evil on. What if you want to live to your hearts desire to work in the field of your choice advancing at the rate of your choice by your own hard work? Then choosing to help others out of the goodness of your heart, and none of this by a forced government mandate? The robbery of one's dreams is a huge reason we can call communism evil. The forced "charity" which only makes everyone in the country poor is another. Frankly it always confuses me why the so called rebels of the US are always the ones after more government regulation and not less! Additionally, owning and driving a Jaguar or Lamborghini is not evil in and of itself, only when the heart is set on these material priorities. But do you know what is evil? Envy. The same envy which stems from pride and causes one to want to crush the rich with an overweight government.