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	<title>Comments on: Food news (new series) 5: I take the bait</title>
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	<description>I never touched it, honest!</description>
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		<title>By: Jeremy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&#039;#comment-16440&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Biopolitical&lt;/a&gt; - Splendid. And this just in: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Big Food vs. Big Insurance&lt;/a&gt;.

I honestly think we&#039;re on the same page here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='#comment-16440' rel="nofollow">@Biopolitical</a> &#8211; Splendid. And this just in: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;th&#038;emc=th rel="nofollow">Big Food vs. Big Insurance</a>.</p>
<p>I honestly think we&#8217;re on the same page here.</p>
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		<title>By: Biopolitical</title>
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		<dc:creator>Biopolitical</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am also using bread as an exemplar.

I do not make completely rational decisions when buying and eating bread. Other people are more or less as irrational/rational and self-interested/altruistic as I am. I want other people to let me choose what bread to eat among those available. I have no right to force other people to make my favorite bread for me. What bread other people eat is not my business. I don&#039;t want to pay for the bread other people eat. The &quot;finding&quot; that people are irrational does not affect my philosophy. Neither would do the opposite finding.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am also using bread as an exemplar.</p>
<p>I do not make completely rational decisions when buying and eating bread. Other people are more or less as irrational/rational and self-interested/altruistic as I am. I want other people to let me choose what bread to eat among those available. I have no right to force other people to make my favorite bread for me. What bread other people eat is not my business. I don&#8217;t want to pay for the bread other people eat. The &#8220;finding&#8221; that people are irrational does not affect my philosophy. Neither would do the opposite finding.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&#039;#comment-16391&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Biopolitical&lt;/a&gt; - It&#039;s not about bread. Bread is an exemplar. And there is plenty of expensive bread available.

I&#039;d be interested to know what you think of the repeated finding that in real life, people do not make rational decisions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='#comment-16391' rel="nofollow">@Biopolitical</a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not about bread. Bread is an exemplar. And there is plenty of expensive bread available.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d be interested to know what you think of the repeated finding that in real life, people do not make rational decisions.</p>
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		<title>By: Biopolitical</title>
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		<dc:creator>Biopolitical</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with you that we should avoid externalities. In the case of food and health, we can easily do so by making individuals pay for their own medical costs. 

A homemade loaf of bread is much more expensive than the supermarket one. Thus I, and almost everybody else, prefers the latter. If people wanted delicious, healthy, nutritive and expensive bread, the market would provide it. 

It also seems to me that producing bread at home generates more externalities than producing it industrially, at least in terms of carbon emissions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with you that we should avoid externalities. In the case of food and health, we can easily do so by making individuals pay for their own medical costs. </p>
<p>A homemade loaf of bread is much more expensive than the supermarket one. Thus I, and almost everybody else, prefers the latter. If people wanted delicious, healthy, nutritive and expensive bread, the market would provide it. </p>
<p>It also seems to me that producing bread at home generates more externalities than producing it industrially, at least in terms of carbon emissions.</p>
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