Comment: Free Market does not mean fraud

Companies should not be allowed to DECEIVE consumers.
There is no legitimate reason for anybody to sell a product to somebody that has something harmful in it, and hide the fact that there is something harmful in the product. In a free market, consumers make the decision what succeeds and fails, but the consumers have the right to make an informed decision.

It is very clear that the reason these companies do not want to have to put this label on their products, is because they KNOW that they will lose some of their business if people know what it is that they are buying. In other words, these companies want to be allowed to dupe consumers into buying something that they would not want to buy. That is fraud, and it IS a libertarian position to oppose fraud.

Also, I don't feel it is a responsibility of the consumers to have to make these demands on the companies. If you secretly stick a poison in something you know somebody is going to consume, without telling them, that should be a crime in itself. Just because the consumer "didn't specifically ask" doesn't make it OK to poison him.