Big Food vs. the People

nickff•21 minutes ago

The measures related to lawsuits are misleading and terrible, because of the way class-action lawsuits have incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases against large companies.

wombat-man•18 minutes ago

Don't they still need to win to get paid?

strictnein•14 minutes ago

They're purchasing lottery tickets that are mostly paid for by tax payers who fund the court systems.

bluGill•14 minutes ago

Winning one and losing five is in their favor.

arthurjj•15 minutes ago

I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (193 out of 239) of the lawsuits are in Mexico and

> many of them were against the country’s labelling regulation. Quinto Elemento Lab reveals the companies’ arguments: that the laws were a violation of their constitutional rights

But the article doesn't say what those rights are, which makes me think the lawsuits were just

jruohonen•about 1 hour ago

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124738

connor11528•about 1 hour ago

america has a monopoly problem

rootusrootus•22 minutes ago

Indeed if we could solve one thing with our gov't, I'd want it to be antitrust enforcement. For an ostensibly free market society we seem awfully willing to except it being anything but.

kibwen•15 minutes ago

Free markets tend to produce monopolies. You know how economies of scale are a thing? That's another way of saying that small companies lose to large companies at scale. "Disruption" or "agility" is the only thing that small companies have going for them, but once the monopolist gets large enough they can just buy up any upstarts and keep the market all to themselves forever. This is why you require governments to periodically shake the snowglobe and restore markets to competitiveness... until the monopolist gets big enough that they just buy the government, anyway.

pphysch•6 minutes ago

Exactly. If you ask anyone on the street, "is it easier for a fast food worker or a business-owning millionaire to make their next million dollars?", common sense will prevail.

Money begets money (and power). It doesn't require an economics degree to understand this positive feedback loop.

arthurjj•3 minutes ago

The article says 80% of the lawsuits were in Mexico and ~3% were in America.

artisinal•26 minutes ago

In many European countries, the largest restaurant chain is American. Not great.

bluGill•12 minutes ago

You seem to be assuming chains are good. I prefer the one location restaurant myself, but by definition they will never be the largest chain.

cbg0•9 minutes ago

McDonald's might be the largest restaurant chain in Italy but that doesn't really mean much given how many small restaurants the country has with high quality food.

dabbz•42 minutes ago

True, we have way too many thematic versions of Monopoly. I'm still missing so many copies.

EGreg•25 minutes ago

Very relevant: https://magarshak.com/blog/government-and-industry-distract-...

Big Food vs. the People

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