While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales
9th November 2010
When government has power, those who want the government to exercise that power in their favor will organize and attempt to get that done. This is what ‘regulatory capture’ is all about: Eventually a regulatory agency is staffed with people who are all on the side of the industry that it ought to be regulating, and regulations get promulgated that advance the interests of the major players (those with the deep pockets) rather than the public or the smaller fry.