Whether we like it or not duped exchanges exist. A duped exchange happens whenever a consumer it deceived in either the way the product works, doesn’t work, or if information is withheld about the service or product. The film Food INC does a great job showing examples of these duped exchanges. The examples range from all the different types of food we have at a grocery store, the cost of food, how food is labeled, and what exactly the meat is like. Overall, consumers should not be duped into exchanges in the food industry but duped exchanges in a different industry might be more acceptable.
Every time you go to the grocery store the products are deceiving you. The way food is produced is abusive to both the animals and the workers. Things like cage free and free-range chickens don’t exactly mean the chickens are treated properly. A cage free chicken literally means they aren’t in a cage, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t packed into a tight space and left in a dark area. A free-range chicken could mean they have a little 5 foot by 5 foot grass area that some of them don’t even know how to get to. Of course we don’t get all that information when we buy a product because it would influence our decision to not buy the product.
The label makes us believe that these animals are in better conditions than they actually are, and that is deceiving. The industry doesn’t want us to know the truth about the way animals and workers are abused. Food INC shows different situations that people were in and were sued for either patent violations or influencing the food industry’s profit. For example, it is against the law to criticize food products. Oprah is a great example of someone who mentioned Mad Cow Disease and since she was such a huge. .
ith the aims of the market. Businesses need to be able to advertise to stay in competition with other businesses. Falsifying the news should be against the law, and advertising companies shouldn’t have major control over the media. In order to do this we would need more independent news sources that have all the funding they need to be able to produce news that is simply the truth. Carr’s view that business is a game and the rules are the law is more consistent with the market we have now. I believe Carr’s view is a better one but in order for consumers to not be completely deceived by businesses that the laws surrounding businesses need to change.
In order for the laws to change there need to be stricter regulations on the revolving door. Business is all about how you deal with the competition and play the game, the rules just have to change to better the consumers.
