You have a kind of valid point. Scientific studies and the relevant regulatory agencies are not always correct. We can't always trust the scientific consensus (unless it's about global warming...but I digress).
...but you don't mention anything better. There's no "and therefore we should trust..." clause in your argument. Here's some obvious options:
* Everything is legal (from arsenic onwards)
* Everything is illegal (from dihydrogen monoxide onwards)
* National regulators make the rules.
* Privatized regulators compete to certify food safe.
* ....?
You've criticized the third option for being too permissive, so I'm sure you wouldn't like the first option. The second option would lead to us all starving. So...what is it? Do we try the libertarian wet dream of private testing labs competing in the market to certify food safety? What? I assume you don't think we just appoint Jamie Oliver as a hereditary food safety czar or something.
The only system we have claims that ammonium hydroxide is safe. You say you don't trust that system, and I'm certainly not saying you're wrong not to. But what claims can you point to that it is not safe that don't fall by the same logic?
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You have a kind of valid point. Scientific studies and the relevant regulatory agencies are not always correct. We can't always trust the scientific consensus (unless it's about global warming...but I digress).
...but you don't mention anything better. There's no "and therefore we should trust..." clause in your argument. Here's some obvious options:
You've criticized the third option for being too permissive, so I'm sure you wouldn't like the first option. The second option would lead to us all starving. So...what is it? Do we try the libertarian wet dream of private testing labs competing in the market to certify food safety? What? I assume you don't think we just appoint Jamie Oliver as a hereditary food safety czar or something.The only system we have claims that ammonium hydroxide is safe. You say you don't trust that system, and I'm certainly not saying you're wrong not to. But what claims can you point to that it is not safe that don't fall by the same logic?