Wild how one factory is responsible for production of such a large percentage of all formula, and how few people ask basic questions like "why is one factory responsible for production of such a large percentage of all formula?" and "why are there like two companies producing nearly all the formula?" and "why don't supermarkets have their own generic brand formulas?"
Then you go down the rabbit hole and realize that's also true for other staples like saline solution.
Going further down the rabbit hole. You realize that the choices presented in the supermarket are entirely artificial. Every industry is controlled by a duopoly, and the allocation of resources to every industry is more rigidly dictated by economic controllers such as Larry Fink than any Soviet commisar could have ever dreamed.
Yes, incentives are such that only a handful of enormous companies can comply with the regulations and profitably produce formula. Then there's a whole process to bring new production facilities online, which makes it difficult to respond to problems of this sort. This is a problem, "nefarious" or not.
And harmonizing the regs would help, but they'd still be onerous regs that would prevent small batch formula from small local producers (eg. the dairy farm down the road).
Perhaps, but in the current situation where there are shortages and the military is airlifting small quantities from Europe, I suspect people would take what they could get. And if their choice was between "let your infant starve" and "feed your infant the formula made from the 100 year-old recipe fed to your great-grandparents that the dairy down the street is making" they might choose the latter.
I'm not against regulation; I simply think we should punish (including executing) those who do harm and leave those who aren't harming others alone. There's a very wide chasm between "safe" and "complies with FDA regulations"; I have direct experience with this.
few people ask basic questions like "why is one factory responsible for production of such a large percentage of all formula?" and "why are there like two companies producing nearly all the formula?" and "why don't supermarkets have their own generic brand formulas?"
Wild how one factory is responsible for production of such a large percentage of all formula, and how few people ask basic questions like "why is one factory responsible for production of such a large percentage of all formula?" and "why are there like two companies producing nearly all the formula?" and "why don't supermarkets have their own generic brand formulas?"
Then you go down the rabbit hole and realize that's also true for other staples like saline solution.
Going further down the rabbit hole. You realize that the choices presented in the supermarket are entirely artificial. Every industry is controlled by a duopoly, and the allocation of resources to every industry is more rigidly dictated by economic controllers such as Larry Fink than any Soviet commisar could have ever dreamed.
this was all done to us by the people pretending to fix it.
Yes, incentives are such that only a handful of enormous companies can comply with the regulations and profitably produce formula. Then there's a whole process to bring new production facilities online, which makes it difficult to respond to problems of this sort. This is a problem, "nefarious" or not.
And harmonizing the regs would help, but they'd still be onerous regs that would prevent small batch formula from small local producers (eg. the dairy farm down the road).
Perhaps, but in the current situation where there are shortages and the military is airlifting small quantities from Europe, I suspect people would take what they could get. And if their choice was between "let your infant starve" and "feed your infant the formula made from the 100 year-old recipe fed to your great-grandparents that the dairy down the street is making" they might choose the latter.
I'm not against regulation; I simply think we should punish (including executing) those who do harm and leave those who aren't harming others alone. There's a very wide chasm between "safe" and "complies with FDA regulations"; I have direct experience with this.
Gubmint, gubmint, and, uh, gubmint.
Correct. And to be fair, also the lobbyists the giant companies pay to make sure the Gubmit keeps new players out of the market.