Left to the free market, end up with horse meat burgers

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Left to the free market, end up with horse meat burgers

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If you leave everything up to the free market you end up with horse meat in your burgers!

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and if we leave it to the benevolent dictates of government masters, you end up with Soylent Green

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But I am not suggesting that, it is not a question of either/or

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rantal wrote:If you leave everything up to the free market you end up with horse meat in your burgers.
Actually, there's nothing wrong with horse meat, but if you sell beef that is actually horse meat, that is fraud, which is not what a free market is all about, but I realize you don't understand that.
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I suggest you read the English news

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rantal wrote:I suggest you read the English news
Why the hell would I want to do that???
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Because then you sill learn that the free market did exactly that

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rantal wrote:Because then you sill learn that the free market did exactly that

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Did exactly what? I'm afraid you've been hanging out with Bill Wiltrack a little too long.
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In UK, meat has been discovered to be contaminated with horse meat

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rantal wrote:In UK, meat has been discovered to be contaminated with horse meat

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I knew that, and mixing horse meat into beef is fradulent unless that is what the customer wants.
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That's the free market for you

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rantal wrote:That's the free market for you.
What the hell does that mean. How about a concrete example?
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Re: Left to the free market, end up with horse meat burgers

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The concrete example is the horse meat found in burgers

Now, why did you say your theory was a concrete example?

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rantal wrote:The concrete example is the horse meat found in burgers

Now, why did you say your theory was a concrete example?

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If somebody puts horse meat in the beef, that is prima facie evidence of fraud. That is not what is meant by a free market. Stay away from economics, my friend.
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Re: Left to the free market, end up with horse meat burgers

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Unfortunately, fraud is rife in a free market

Now, why did you say your theory was a concrete example?

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