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A Sobering Christmas Reality: Cocktail of Hazardous Pesticides in Wine has Tripled
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This also doesn't seem desirable. Societal health isn't achieved by a group of individual decisions. It is created by regulations on how much pesticide should be in consumer goods or how much risk various consumables should pose to an individual.
Caveat emptor isn't a desirable public policy.
However what he showed is that regulators do not reflect the reality of the threat of alcohol consumption on the regulations that are meant to protect the people. Hence the need to inform the individuals who otherwise blindly consider that the current set of regulations leaves no hazardous substances available on the market.
Individuals can work with what they can control, while also pressuring their government to regulate what they can't.
Can you avoid all pesticides? No.
Can you avoid all alcoholic beverages? Yes.
Edit: clarification