On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 2:42:26 PM UTC-4, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 2:16:43 PM UTC-4, bob haller wrote:
Heres my belief........

Nestle beneful knows there dog food is hazardous but is attempting to cover it up.....

GM knew cobalt ignition switches were hazardous but covered it up.

lumber liquidators knew some of their products were hazardous but tried to cover it up.

both car makers and takata knew the airbags were hazardous but covered it up.

.toyota knew their vehicles had runaway acceleration troubles but covered it up.

all of these were finally made public after people died and manufacturers LIED

when companies are only concered with the bottom line and reputation means nothing. it makes covering it up or trying to the best fiancial decision.


The only flaw in that argument is that reputation means everything to
the bottom line. Destroying the Purina consumer brand would be about as
dumb a thing as one could do. Even if they only cared about the bottom line,
the smartest thing they could do would be to quickly correct whatever could
be causing the problem. If they changed the formulation to add something,
just go back to the previous one. If they changed suppliers, go back to
the previous ones, etc. On the other hand, if they really don't know
and it's something that's entered via the long list of things that goes
into their product, then you can't fix it until you find it.

I'd also note that the FDA has known of this, been tracking it for
quite some time too. If it's some poison that's easy to indentify,
kind of odd the FDA apparently can't figure it out either.


add some laws, put a couple CEOs in prison, fiancially devastate some companies and products will be safer for everyone.

Don't you think it would be a good idea to find out what's actually
wrong, first?

companies find defects, and rather than come clean and fix the problem they decide it cheaper to cover them up.

takata knew for years its airbags were killing people, and even once the info became public, they fought a general recall to save a buck.....