“Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.” WellsKindWaterResultsCarProductsSafetyWestCreditConsumersMeatRegulationToysBuyersAspirinWild WestToasters Author:Elizabeth Warren
“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."” IfsWantMindMightJobsUsedTurnsGrowthCan DoObjectsInvolvedCostDrugCreatingAspectMachinesSafetyVery GoodIllObjectivesConsumersScareMilkCowsOrganismsAddictGood JobEcosystemsHormonesDrug AddictHealth And SafetyMonocultureBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Vandana Shiva
“If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.” IfsRealWaterSubjectsProductsGunSafetyConsumersRegulationToysPistolsGun SafetyToy Guns Author:Michael D. Barnes
“At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.” EndsBusinessQualityCostConcernedSafetyConsumersTails Author:Andrew Curry
“At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.” IfsGoalSecurityInternetSafeSafetyBottomCriticalConsumersPrivacyPreservationEliminationCredible Author:Cliff Stearns
“... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.” GivingIndustryAuthorityGunSafetyCongressProtectionRationalConsumersDepartmentReachingRegulationGun ControlBansFirearmsTreasuryBannedHandgunsRegulatorsAnti GunHealth And SafetyGun SafetyHandgun BanGun BanConsumer Protection Author:Josh Sugarmann
“Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.” IfsProblemTermRiskEconomicAchieveInvolvedProtectSolutionsSafetyStrategyAssumingIllnessConvictionAvailableConsumersZeroGroundedSimplestComprehensiveParticipantsVigorPreventionLikelihoodFood SafetyContaminationFood Supply Author:Michael R. Taylor
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.” ShouldMadeNatureGoneTreeRocksProductsCoupleSafetyLocalsConsumersParksRegulationPlasticHazardsPlaygroundsStumpsTripping Author:Lenore Skenazy
“Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.” BigsCommunityEffectsSafetyProtectionConsumersBankingSoundnessConsumer Protection Author:Judd Gregg