Big Food vs. the People

(lighthousereports.com)

52 points | by jruohonen 1 hour ago

5 comments

  • nickff 10 minutes ago
    The measures related to lawsuits are misleading and terrible, because of the way class-action lawsuits have incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases against large companies.
    • wombat-man 8 minutes ago
      Don't they still need to win to get paid?
      • strictnein 3 minutes ago
        They're purchasing lottery tickets that are mostly paid for by tax payers who fund the court systems.
      • bluGill 3 minutes ago
        Winning one and losing five is in their favor.
  • jruohonen 1 hour ago
  • EGreg 15 minutes ago
  • connor11528 1 hour ago
    america has a monopoly problem
    • rootusrootus 11 minutes ago
      Indeed if we could solve one thing with our gov't, I'd want it to be antitrust enforcement. For an ostensibly free market society we seem awfully willing to except it being anything but.
      • kibwen 5 minutes ago
        Free markets tend to produce monopolies. You know how economies of scale are a thing? That's another way of saying that small companies lose to large companies at scale. "Disruption" or "agility" is the only thing that small companies have going for them, but once the monopolist gets large enough they can just buy up any upstarts and keep the market all to themselves forever. This is why you require governments to periodically shake the snowglobe and restore markets to competitiveness... until the monopolist gets big enough that they just buy the government, anyway.
    • artisinal 16 minutes ago
      In many European countries, the largest restaurant chain is American. Not great.
      • bluGill 2 minutes ago
        You seem to be assuming chains are good. I prefer the one location restaurant myself, but by definition they will never be the largest chain.
    • dhosek 21 minutes ago
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    • black_13 52 minutes ago
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    • dabbz 32 minutes ago
      True, we have way too many thematic versions of Monopoly. I'm still missing so many copies.
  • arthurjj 5 minutes ago
    I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (193 out of 239) of the lawsuits are in Mexico and

    > many of them were against the country’s labelling regulation. Quinto Elemento Lab reveals the companies’ arguments: that the laws were a violation of their constitutional rights

    But the article doesn't say what those rights are, which makes me think the lawsuits were just