Let’s review:

–Underwriters Laboratories, Good Housekeeping Seal, Consumer Reports, Moody’s, etc.: Private (non-profit in some instances, but private). Not to mention Zagat’s, TripAdvisor, U.S. News rankings, etc.

–USDA, FDA, CPSC, etc.: Government.

Are you really sure you want to play this game?

The government has crowded out private safety certification in food, drugs, etc., and you lament that strictly governmental failure as “the consequences of laissez faire”? Wow, just wow.

(P.S. Sinclair’s depiction of the meatpacking industry in The Jungle has been criticized as utterly, and intentionally, deceitful.)