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On (Cr)Edibility: Why Food In The United States May Never Be Safe, Denis Stearns
On (Cr)Edibility: Why Food In The United States May Never Be Safe, Denis Stearns
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Most critiques of regulation are premised on the concepts of “free markets” and “market failures” as justifying, or not, the need for government interventions and control of the marketplace. Using the market for food as an example, this article questions not only the possibility of a buyer being a free actor when buying food, but also whether it is meaningful to speak in terms of a “free” market at all. One centerpiece of this questioning is the author’s coining of the term “(cr)edibility” to stand for the twinned ideas of credibility and edibility as defining the nature of all commercial …