Comments on: Food safety bill: big vs. small business

By: Goodbye to Locally Processed Meats? | Austrian Economics Blog

Goodbye to Locally Processed Meats? | Austrian Economics Blog — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:02:25 +0000

[…] had in fact supported passage of the law). More recently, major food and agribusiness firms have signed on to support a major new round of federal food safety regulation despite warnings that it could pose big […]

By: GregS

GregS — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:09:07 +0000

All the reasons you’re raising a red flag about this bill are the reasons the statists love it. Statists, those people who want the government to control and run everything, much prefer an industry to be dominated by a handful of large companies, rather than to be divided among hundreds or thousands of smaller ones. It is much easier to regulate and control an industry when there are only a few companies to regulate. There’s not actually a lot of difference between the state explicitly nationalizing an industry (as in socialism) and the state forcing a consolidation on an industry so that it is completely controlled by a handful of large companies which the state can then regulate and control.

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:15:51 +0000

You mean the largest and most politically connected food producers would happily pay to eradicate their competition? What an amazing and unforeseen development!