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Re:Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought by throwawaysleep on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:30AM (#33817554)
With sustainability and sweat shops, the trade off is making things a lot more expensive, so the offloading is more that most people don't care.
Re:Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought by i80and on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:43AM (#33817744)
I think a majority of people do care, but there's not really a way for them to express that in the market. You can't just buy the more expensive product and trust that it's going to be more ethically produced.

It's a societal problem that can't be solved by individual consumers.

Re:Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought by SQueeeeeL on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:49AM (#33817841)
Non-regulatory solutions also doesn't empower the market to optimize cost in a productive way (which would cut into profits). In the current economy for the vast majority of products we have two options 1) a cheap option made in horrendous inhumane conditions and 2) a luxury good made in a process that's inherently limited in aim and scope. Globalism basically exports the suffering of the most unregulated markets to the entire planet.