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		eru on May 30, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie co... Sure, but why not just charge more and sell to the highest bidders?

Scarblac on May 30, 2016 | [–]

Because it's baby formula, produced here, and rather vital. Government is _not_ going to stand idly by if it disappears from stores because some other country bids more.

jacalata on May 31, 2016 | [–]

It's called "civilisation"

eru on June 2, 2016 | [–]

Civilization is to deny milk powder to people who want to pay for it, just because they are from another side of a border?

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