Dr. Strangelove said:
You say it's negligence on the corporations part but has anyone proven that this silicone is actually harmful in reasonable quantities? Sure the article loves to make people scared by claiming the silicone in question is used in numerous industrial applications but... so what? Water is used in food and industrial applications. So are oranges and fats and numerous other ingredients. To make the negligence claim you have to prove that the company knew what they were doing was harmful. Negligence doesn't mean they did something you disagree with. Furthermore, a monetary pursuit might not "justify" an action, it does, however, prevent the company from doing anything overly risky. A company would not add an ingredient to a food item that would cause any adverse effects the consumer wouldn't expect. (obviously a consumer knows the continual consumption of hamburgers will make them fat, but they wouldn't expect immediate food poisoning.) The cost of litigation completely outweighs the money saved by making the product cheaper. Not to mention the monetary disaster that comes from their company name becoming tainted.
Finally, many people buy things that are cheap and they do not know what is in it but do you want to be big brother and force them to buy a safer, but more expensive, alternative? What about personal choice and personal preference? What if somebody simply cannot afford a healthy alternative, or they simply choose not to? The best way is education, teach people about what they purchase. Try to convince them that something is better than something else but let them decide for themselves.
To give an example, I smoke. I know smoking is bad. Throughout my entire schooling all I ever heard was how bad smoking is. I've seen the research, I've seen actual lungs that are completely black due to a lifetime of smoking. I get it, but I choose to smoke anyway because I enjoy it. Would I ever in a million years decide to blame the tobacco companies for providing a product that produces cancer? Blame them for producing a product that might ultimately kill me? No. It was my choice to smoke.