'Transparency' mandate would burden small brewers and distilleries
https://reason.com/2024/08/24/transparency-mandate-would-burden-small-brewers-and-distilleries/
> Do you really want to force the Carthusian monks who make Green Chartreuse to reveal their ingredients?
In Israel we have such laws. Every beer has the same list: water, Barley, hops, yeast (order has to be by percentage size of the product). Sometimes I see wheat.
All in all I like to know if anything was added to the beer. Sugar for instance.
Is forcing transparency go against free markets?
@kpeace forcing anything (by government mandate, backed by guns) is against free markets.
Instead a free market would choose to buy the labelled product over the unlabelled one, if that is what they want.
You can always refuse to buy an unlabelled product, and if no one did that manufacturer would go out of business unless they change.
@sgryphon
Maybe the best way is to get gov. out of it and create a non profit "manufacturing transparency commitment" label which will define these things and consumers can choose whether to buy products from manufacturers that have that label and commit to these regulations...
So I guess I am agreeing with you 😀