I don't disagree about encouraging onshoring for example (much easier to make those regulations stick that way). But I was mostly responding to the parent's idea that shifting the burden/choice to the consumer was a positive thing. My instinct is that, if we're talking about humane treatment of chickens, it would be best to impose regulations so that all the eggs met a minimum requirement - so consumers couldn't "choose wrong". But of course that makes them all cost more...