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[eru]

Even without that legislation, most people would already care about avoiding poisoned food.

So a law specifically forbidding poisons is in line with what the majority already cares about.

(Slightly related: see eg some Chinese people making good money from buying baby formula overseas and shipping it back home in their luggage. China has legislation against poison, but people don't trust the enforcement enough.)

[kergonath → eru]

> Even without that legislation, most people would already care about avoiding poisoned food.

There is lots of evidence that people would still use harmful substances when it’s nice and cheap. Then other people would be exposed to it just because it is impossible to know the chemical composition of everything around you. Lots of people care about avoiding things like toxic chemicals and harmful bacteria, the trouble is that they cannot see them.

> So a law specifically forbidding poisons is in line with what the majority already cares about.

So why not do it, then, if it is the right thing and people want it?

In the real world, people are not perfectly informed, and fraudsters are willing to lie. So law and enforcement are absolutely necessary to end harmful practices. See lead paint, but also leaded petrol, asbestos, antibiotics in farm animals, and insecticide chemicals spread willy nilly across the countryside. These things not just disappear on their own because some people don’t like it.

Even on the topic at hand, to be honest. People know that ads and tracking are bad and annoying, even if they do not see clearly the extent of the damage. Some of us know how to avoid most of them. And yet, they keep making more and more money, and are far from disappearing. It is difficult to take your point seriously.