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Good collection of food-centered regulatory madness tales.

Seems the only way to show the faults with this kind of regulatory regime is to compare those restricted countries with unfettered countries. Others ways will just be white papers and statistics, stark differences like North v South Korea make the point.

Any countries not doing this?

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Plenty! Including the United States just a few short months ago. Sri Lanka's experiment with organic farming (and the collapse that followed) is a good, nearly-controlled experiment worth looking at as an example.

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Oh man I forgot about that - yeah total failure in Sri Lanka, that was huge bad.

As far as US goes, are states able to diverge from federal mandates enough to show a difference, or is everyone locked in to DC dumbassery?

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States are free to choose how much further they want to go, but can't do less than the EPA demands until the Congress repeals the last laws Congress passed codifying EPA authority to regulate carbon. Tough business but easily doable!

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