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Originally posted by kach22i
Seems to me that the punishment fits the crime in this case, people died.
I'd like to hear from all the Libertarians and extreem right wingers who seem to want to let the free market shove anything they want down our throats unchecked and unregulated. China is like the USA was over 100 years ago, a scary place in many ways.
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Unlike China, the US market is far more capable of policing itself due to our extremely litigious society and abundance of tort lawyers. That culture does not (yet) exist in China, so there really is no one to rely on besides the gov't. And don't pretend their gov't. gives a rat's a$s about food or drug safety either. Life pretty cheap over there and their gov't. doesn't have to bother with elections. However, they are very image conscious with the rest of the world and bad quality control spells doom for exports and that is something they very much care about.