No, don’t try to pass the buck. Wealthy nations are the ones responsible for what their own citizens get up to. Corporations are made up of people and should be regulated by their host nations.
Low Income Countries usually lack the resources to test imported products properly. This for eg is why all the poison cough syrup deaths globally.
They also lack the resources to finance enforcement of their laws.
They are also bullied by the World Trade Organization or threatened with lack of trade in necessities if they try to go against large international corporations with lobbying power.
Don’t noble savage this shit. Most of those countries have functional governments that manage to regulate a lot of stuff, the article isn’t about lack of enforcement. It’s about lack of regulation period. While the WTO does help enforce the neo-liberal order, they aren’t the ones that are doing this. Nestle-LLC incorporated in South Africa is using “too much” sugar in their formula. This is a problem that is wholly within South Africa’s ability to solve.
The article isn’t the be all and end all of the problem though. I’m talking about the wider picture.
I find it bizarre that you think pointing out resource disparity is the racist “noble savage” stereotype.
The behaviour of Western corporations are also wholly within the power of Western countries to solve.
Edit: I don’t get why you want to focus so hard on what the end-users and LICs are doing and not on what the sources and wealthy nations are doing. Its like owning very vicious killer dogs, letting them loose and blaming your neighbour for not having a fence.
No, don’t try to pass the buck. Wealthy nations are the ones responsible for what their own citizens get up to. Corporations are made up of people and should be regulated by their host nations.
Low Income Countries usually lack the resources to test imported products properly. This for eg is why all the poison cough syrup deaths globally.
They also lack the resources to finance enforcement of their laws.
They are also bullied by the World Trade Organization or threatened with lack of trade in necessities if they try to go against large international corporations with lobbying power.
Don’t noble savage this shit. Most of those countries have functional governments that manage to regulate a lot of stuff, the article isn’t about lack of enforcement. It’s about lack of regulation period. While the WTO does help enforce the neo-liberal order, they aren’t the ones that are doing this. Nestle-LLC incorporated in South Africa is using “too much” sugar in their formula. This is a problem that is wholly within South Africa’s ability to solve.
The article isn’t the be all and end all of the problem though. I’m talking about the wider picture.
I find it bizarre that you think pointing out resource disparity is the racist “noble savage” stereotype.
The behaviour of Western corporations are also wholly within the power of Western countries to solve.
Edit: I don’t get why you want to focus so hard on what the end-users and LICs are doing and not on what the sources and wealthy nations are doing. Its like owning very vicious killer dogs, letting them loose and blaming your neighbour for not having a fence.