Food for Naught 0
More possible toxic “assets,” resulting from the “free hand of the market’s” allegiance to greed over moral conduct (emphasis added):
The kits were shipped to Arkansas and Kentucky to help feed some of the 1.3 million people left without power for days at the height of last week’s ice storm. No illnesses have been reported, but several people consumed the suspect plastic packets of peanut butter.
Note that there is no evidence that the products in question are dangerous.
It could be that dangerous food is being removed from circulation (a good thing) or that good food is being wasted (a very bad thing).
Once again, we see moral bankruptcy of Republican Economic Theory: the “free hand of the market” is amoral and does immoral things if left unwatched.
