FRENCH FRIES!!!!!!

How would Gladwell respond to the responsibility question from September 15th? (Does the producer of this knowledge have any responsibility? What is your responsibility as a knower?)

I think that the producer of this knowledge has the responsibility of allowing everyone to view it. If it were to be kept from the public, it would not follow Plato’s view of truth, where it has to be public for all people to know it and read it. People who eat at fast food places and eat these fries should know how they are made. Also, this article describes the transition to vegetable oil. Most people don’t know that this made the French fries unhealthier. “In the course of making vegetable oil suitable for deep frying, it is subjected to a chemical process called hydrogenation, which creates a new substance called a trans unsaturated fat… they wreak havoc with the body's ability to regulate cholesterol.” Most people do not know this information and it is the responsibility of the producer to bring it the reader’s attention.
Our responsibility as the reader is to understand what the author is doing making a point of this fact. It is up to the reader to make his or her own decision on whether to act upon this information.