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Let's see, someone is induced into parting with a greater than normal portion of his money by the seller's appeal to his sense of pride or fear by making him feel smarter or less likely to suffer harm if he buys the product, even though there's no evidence available to back up the seller's claims, that person would not be called a wise consumer but, rather, a _____.

The gvt is equally concerned and convinced it knows better than a consumer how one should actually spend his/her own money. I do, however, love the hardcore conviction coming from "conservatives" attempting to tell me how wrong I am on my choice, some in quite vile way, same people who are quite upset with a gvt attempting to do the same thing. That doesn't make you a wise consumer, that makes you a hypocrite. So unless you or anyone else is donating, unbeknown to me, to some fund which actually supports me and my family, I respectfully suggest to worry about your own expenses au lieu of mine.

I do, however, love the hardcore conviction coming from "conservatives" attempting to tell me how wrong I am on my choice, some in quite vile way, same people who are quite upset with a gvt attempting to do the same thing.

If someone who is an expert in nutrition sees folks making a choice that is isn't consistent with nutritional reality and who may be doing so simply out of ignorance, to ignore it and say, "well, after all, it's their choice" is irresponsible. Once a message has been delivered, then the responsibility is on the shoulders of the one deciding to heed or ignore the information. But the act of "making a choice" doesn't have an effect on objective reality. Making a bad choice or an ill-informed choice won't make everything turn out okay because it is my choice.

For example, people go on and on about bovine growth hormones being responsible for an earlier onset of puberty in children who drink milk from cows who have received these hormones to sustain and/or increase milk production and will pay extra money for milk that is alleged to be free from such hormones believing they are doing something good for their children. In reality, all they are doing is spending extra money that could be used for their children in other ways because non-primate growth hormones cannot dock with primate growth hormone receptors. There is no way in the world that they can do so. On the other hand, primate growth hormones can dock with non-primate growth hormone receptors. So, whereas a shot of human growth hormone will have an effect on calves, ingesting (or even injecting) bovine growth hormone will have no hormone effect on humans. I've seen some people get upset and claim that telling them that is equivalent to telling them that they don't care about their kids. That isn't the case, but in this instance what they call caring is misplaced and wastes money that could be used for something real instead of satisfying an emotional need to feel that one is doing a good job as a parent.