If we don't want, for example, milk from hormone-soaked cows, we should have the power to say so, and to reject the product, no matter how much scientific data the hormone's manufacturer claims to have proving its safety. Yet Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, which wanted to promote the fact that it used no milk from hormone-treated cows, had to go to court in 1997 to stop the state of Illinois from seizing its products from the supermarket shelves. Ben and Jerry struck a blow for democracy, which we should celebrate with a double dip of Chunky Monkey, and honor by demanding more. We have not hung on to what democracy we still have in America, not maintained a unique system of power sharing among different branches and levels of government, because it is efficient. Efficiency is not our goal.
Nature demands it.
So does wise government. So should our means of feeding ourselves, our children, and the world.