[Analog24]

I think the expectation that the entire consumer market (or even just a majority) is going to collectively become universally informed about all their purchases and shift the market for the better is far less likely then a government intervention being successful.

If you go to countries where there was never any government intervention relating to cigarettes do you know what you'll find? A lot more people smoking cigarettes.

[_heimdall]

I don't think it has to mean everyone becomes informed and makes educated decisions. We can get to the same end by people simply choosing not to buy products that they don't know much about how they were made.

In other words, the solution can be additive where we only bring in products we're confident in rather than having to learn everything and remove items from there.

[Analog24]

As someone else mentioned in this thread, it is not possible to understand how everything you purchase works. That is also incredibly infeasible. What you are asking is to effectively revert back two hundred years of technological progress (a rough estimate for the last time people were actually self sufficient at a local level).