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You don't need a bachelor's degree.

Look at what you're bringing into your home, go down the ingredients list, look them up.

It will take you about 5-10 minutes per product.

And a couple of minutes more for each of the other causes that we want to make consumers responsible for, e.g. carbon impact, treatment of workers throughout the supply chain, local environmental destruction along the supply chain, etc.

Well, if I know that all that goes into the product... all the supply-chain impacts from all the different components of the product... and i STILL add my dollar-vote... which literally says, "yes, please keep doing this, and i'll keep giving you dollars"... and i am aware of all this happening, this entire picture... how am i NOT responsible, or at least complicit, in the process?

There is no ethical consumption. You can only weigh different evils against each other. Unfortunately you only have extremely limited information and limited energy to do so. It hence makes a lot of sense to let governments handle this for you.

Or just have an independent regulatory body analyze the product ONCE and ban the thing before the manufacturer cooks up a million batches and puts them all out to market. I'm lazy and I'm also not qualified to evaluate the danger of random substances I find in the store.

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