1996-10-30 - Re: FDA_dis

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From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
To: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
Message Hash: 3d08346f48126071ef9cb61ab81451962f3dfb0ac4fc861fec6b7ac761c100d7
Message ID: <3277A6C2.ABD322C@systemics.com>
Reply To: <554m18$kq8@life.ai.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-30 19:05:14 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:05:14 -0800 (PST)

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From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:05:14 -0800 (PST)
To: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: FDA_dis
In-Reply-To: <554m18$kq8@life.ai.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <3277A6C2.ABD322C@systemics.com>
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Hallam-Baker wrote:
> 
> Regulation is not necessarily anti-commerce. UK beef farmers would be
> better
> off today if there had been more regulation, a weak "free-market"
> attitude
> to public health has destroyed the entire industry. 

Really?  Nothing to do with EC MPs preventing them from selling the
stuff to willing buyers outside of the EC then?

Do you really believe the government "knows better" than the farmers? 
Do you believe regulation is free?  And how can you honestly call the UK
agricultural industry a "free-market"?

Gary
--
"People who love the law and sausages should watch neither being made" 
    - Otto Von Bismarck

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