When everything has a warning label, they no longer carry any meaning. The true intent of these regulations, in my humble opinion, is to create an avenue for lawsuits and fines.
CA and many other states, just keep piling on hyper-specific rules across many industries. Even for large, sophisticated companies, it’s almost impossible to tailor the product or service to meet every state’s regulatory requirements.
Knowing this, the state can charge fines to boost revenue, under the guise of “doing pubic good” and ensure that trial attorneys (read big donors) have a steady supply of lawsuits to file.
I lived in CA for 12 years, after growing up in the military and moving all over the country and planet. CA is perhaps the craziest place I have lived. I remember when my wife and I were shopping for sunglasses and they had one of those warnings on all the sunglasses. It was quite shocking. I guess people that buy more consumer goods are more used to these things, but for us it was quite off putting. It is a lot easier to buy second hand. This way all the toxicity has already worn off.
Basically every single commercial property in California has a sign posted at the entrance with a prop 65 warning that the facility may expose you to known carcinogens. This could be anything from the asphalt in the parking lot to the natural gas stoves in restaurants. Completely meaningless.
You have hit the nail on the head with this single sentence:
"This all puts any sort of scientific credibility to shame."
All of the politically motivated language of the past thirty years has done so, it is the 21st century's way of communicating. There were "weapons of mass destruction" that got us into twenty years of "nation building" BS, there are constant "threats to democracy", and of course, there is the "existential threat" of "climate change", formerly "global warming". I call Bull****!
This label, like the prop 65 that is attached to anything imaginable, will be ignored by anyone with a brain. For those "enlightened homo sapiens" (an oxymoron of the 21st century) that need a government to tell them when, how, and where to empty their bowels, have at it, read and ponder the label.
When everything has a warning label, they no longer carry any meaning. The true intent of these regulations, in my humble opinion, is to create an avenue for lawsuits and fines.
CA and many other states, just keep piling on hyper-specific rules across many industries. Even for large, sophisticated companies, it’s almost impossible to tailor the product or service to meet every state’s regulatory requirements.
Knowing this, the state can charge fines to boost revenue, under the guise of “doing pubic good” and ensure that trial attorneys (read big donors) have a steady supply of lawsuits to file.
Green calls this “warning fatigue!”
And yes, I suspect you’re right on the lawsuit part!
Amen on the "doing public good". Don't you long for the days when we didn't have so many public good doers?
The shell game now includes warning labels…… lunacy
I lived in CA for 12 years, after growing up in the military and moving all over the country and planet. CA is perhaps the craziest place I have lived. I remember when my wife and I were shopping for sunglasses and they had one of those warnings on all the sunglasses. It was quite shocking. I guess people that buy more consumer goods are more used to these things, but for us it was quite off putting. It is a lot easier to buy second hand. This way all the toxicity has already worn off.
Basically every single commercial property in California has a sign posted at the entrance with a prop 65 warning that the facility may expose you to known carcinogens. This could be anything from the asphalt in the parking lot to the natural gas stoves in restaurants. Completely meaningless.
GLF,
You have hit the nail on the head with this single sentence:
"This all puts any sort of scientific credibility to shame."
All of the politically motivated language of the past thirty years has done so, it is the 21st century's way of communicating. There were "weapons of mass destruction" that got us into twenty years of "nation building" BS, there are constant "threats to democracy", and of course, there is the "existential threat" of "climate change", formerly "global warming". I call Bull****!
This label, like the prop 65 that is attached to anything imaginable, will be ignored by anyone with a brain. For those "enlightened homo sapiens" (an oxymoron of the 21st century) that need a government to tell them when, how, and where to empty their bowels, have at it, read and ponder the label.