• There’s so much incredible modern medicine that has absolutely no downsides or side effects for 99.99% of the population, like vaccines

    There’s also the precautionary principle, which I think is the best way to approach food and drug safety: the thing in question has to be proven to be safe and contingencies have to be in place in case of harm before being released. This is opposed to the more US approach to food and drug safety, which requires proof that the thing is unsafe to proceed with regulation.