• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Less emulsifiers in the soap, drinks with corn syrup replacing sugar, and powders like cinnamon cut with lead powder.

    Standard formulas for a given product. Anything that isn’t 40% sugar drink is “immitation soda drink”. Anything that’s under-emulsified can’t be called real soap.

    These are solvable problems at a regulatory level. But at some point, it may be more cost efficient to simply nationalize the under-performing industry. Perhaps Coca-Cola just can’t cut it making soda drinks anymore, and the firm needs to be broken up and devolved to the various states as State Soda Bottling Company

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      7 months ago

      You are seriously underestimating the complexity of products and how easy it would be for them to skirt such legislation

      It would be a massive endeavour for regulators which companies may bypass by industry… This is not the right approach

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        7 months ago

        You are seriously underestimating the complexity of products

        Again, if the regulation process becomes too burdensome, sometimes the only practical solution is nationalization.