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> This impacts legit US producers who want to sell healthy food by putting them out of business.

I'm sorry but there is no evidence for this claim. I can't think of a single Big Food company that wants to sell healthy food. Look at the poultry industry. Look at how milk, pork, and beef are produced. There's no reason to believe that "Big Shrimp" would be any more ethical.

Local corporations put profit before health and safety just as much as foreign corporations do.



Yeah, because the people who would have wanted to put healthy food before profit have either overcome that desire or gone out of business. Just as GP's model predicts. The corporations you get are the ones you regulate for.

The tech industry is the same: we'd love to protect users' data better than regulation demands, but it's hard to make the business case because you just do a lot of work to put yourself at a competitive disadvantage while the users don't notice or don't believe the difference. If data protection were effectively regulated then compliance woudn't be a competitive disadvantage, and then we might have a hope in hell of shipping a good product.




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