From the Consumerist comes a link to this NY Times piece about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow price fixing.

The article also goes into how the SCOTUS has been chipping away at consumer protection laws.

The purpose of all for-profit businesses is, well, to generate profit. The actions they take to accomplish this purpose are often not in your best interests, because your best interests, quite frankly, are not good business.

Whether or not some new frozen snack treat is going to kill you in ten years is less important that what kind of revenue it’s going to generate for the company that makes it in the short term. By the time you’re in a hospital bed (unlikely, since ten years from now people with health insurance will probably be as rare as dodos) and in a position to sue the company, the officers that made the original decision to sell poison will be long gone, and probably not personally liable anyway. Especially if they make even a basic effort to cover their tracks.

There’s what’s good for you and then there’s what’s good for them. When there’s a conflict, who do you suppose is going to win?