{"id":267,"date":"2003-07-13T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/13\/monsanto-sues-to-keep-information-away-from-consumers\/"},"modified":"2003-07-13T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T09:41:09","slug":"monsanto-sues-to-keep-information-away-from-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto sues to keep information away from consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monsanto, the world’s largest maker of artificial growth hormones for cows, has sued a small milk company <\/a>in Maine for printing the slogan “Our farmers’ pledge: no artificial growth hormones” on their milk cartons.<\/p>\n

Now, personally I couldn’t care less about if my milk was produced from cows who were given artificial growth hormones. But that’s a decision that I, and every individual consumer, should be able to make for ourselves. Monsanto may feel that many consumers are irrational to prefer milk without their product, but shouldn’t consumers have a right to be irrational if they want to be?<\/p>\n

To repeat something I posted yesterday, it’s actually a question of if you favor free markets or not. Giving consumers the information they need to make buying choices – and letting consumers decide for themselves<\/i> what they want or don’t want – is the essence of a free market. And yet it’s likely that many conservatives who claim <\/i>to favor free markets will side with Monsanto in this case – just as they’ve mostly argued in favor of Nike’s “right” to deceive consumers in the Nike case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When a free market conflicts with the interests of huge corporations, conservatives favor the corporate interest over the free market almost every time.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alas reader Dan Solomon for the tip..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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