Notice what I said "widespread", I could TOTALLY believe that a single instance due to someone doing something stupid in shipping/supply chain.
Occam's dictates the simplest explanation is USUALLY the correct one. The explanation of rich greedy pricks convince government with money to do something evil to maintain/increase profits which is proven to happen all the time is actually simpler than some kind of crazy concept where a whole facility knowingly poisons their customer base for.. reasons? The mental gymnastics to go through a facility knowingly blowing up business is a CRAZY jump also if it attracts international criminal convictions for essentially no profit gain.
I would even be surprised if a country did that TBH (but short term thinking is the name of the game if you are run by an oligarchy/dictator), because the international sanctions and possibly cutting off shipping from pharma sources would probably not justify the profits the companies want to protect
Let's take the zero pep's incident happening earlier in the year, do we know exactly what happened? No, but we have been able to trace certain labels/etc. to what seemingly were the 0 pep vials, which most likely traces back to a central supplier.
What most likely happened:
- A supplier scammed the manufacturers with bunk product to make a quick buck, thus supplying them with basically "sugar" when you expected peptides. That makes a hell of a lot of sense and made the supplier a ton of short term money. It wouldn't attract international attention as it only screwed over the vendors + us, which people would say "screw em" anyways to financially hurting those groups. It was a cheap tactic that provided a lot of money to that supplier and if they wanted to leave the market anyways I can see the motive. It also didn't harm anyone outside of the financial part to my knowledge.
For most people outcome > than input energy or risk for large decisions like that to make sense. Actors in general are logical about risk vs. reward (when all information is known). If you are going to bring up something like Tariffs in this argument which seem self deprecating, tariffs are a regressive tax on consumption, so it make sense rich people would be in favor of tariffs, as they don't consume exponentially more than an average person.
