The Opinion part of Research..
As a related note, the more I look into food industry related information, the more I.. am reminded that its an industry. These are institutions, who's ultimate responsibility is monetary gains for their few share holders. While none (or few) of those involved in the industry would wish any harm directly, in the pursuit of the system's goals, they can be compelled and even required to act in a way that's moral to business, but not to a human being. In this way, they've the potential to be monstrous to anything outside of their own industrial, inhuman morality, even if these do count as human constructions.
We can create beasts, and we can be consumed by them. We're foolish to think ourselves immune to our own actions, even if through something larger than us. The food industry is no different, even if it deals with matters of our very health and wellbeing. They are subject to every institutional construction that allows a paper mill to dump effluent into the town's water supply, even if not a single individual working in that mill would do such a thing to their community naturally. We are not immune to being poisoned by these beasts in the same way our water supply may be.
These beasts now control their own regulation more and more in this country. These creations which somehow usurp what Adam Smith noted about the morality of the individual: that for all the chances they have to do wrong for their own benefit, even if they may not be caught, humans surprisingly very infrequently do so. Could it be that the power of industry and institution is their ability to allow such acts of wrong, in /spite/ of our humanity?
We can create beasts, and we can be consumed by them. We're foolish to think ourselves immune to our own actions, even if through something larger than us. The food industry is no different, even if it deals with matters of our very health and wellbeing. They are subject to every institutional construction that allows a paper mill to dump effluent into the town's water supply, even if not a single individual working in that mill would do such a thing to their community naturally. We are not immune to being poisoned by these beasts in the same way our water supply may be.
These beasts now control their own regulation more and more in this country. These creations which somehow usurp what Adam Smith noted about the morality of the individual: that for all the chances they have to do wrong for their own benefit, even if they may not be caught, humans surprisingly very infrequently do so. Could it be that the power of industry and institution is their ability to allow such acts of wrong, in /spite/ of our humanity?