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Omg is this the joke? Chalk in milk? So it took me 30 years to actually understand this Simpsons joke?

The golden years writers were so genius.

The death and exploitation of the majority is inherent in Capitalism. For the few benefits of such a heinous system of greed as Capitalism to outweigh the overwhelming harm of the system, a strict regulatory system is essential, with real penalties exacted for violating them.

Formaldehyde is natural, or bodies make some of it so it's fine /s

Copper sulfate used to be added to canned peas because it turns green when it oxidizes, making them look greener.

Copper sulphate is straight up poisonous, enough will kill a passion and low amounts will hurt them.

Anyone who wants to learn more about this history, there is a great episode of the “ridiculous history” podcast that goes into the story that finally got food regulations in the US. A team of people who volunteered to be poisoned to help prove that certain things are unsafe to put in food.

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My wife loves apple sauce, who did this to her

It's also HEAVY, so something light sold by weight just needs a liiiiittle lead to be a lot cheaper to make

I mean if you think about it, cinnamon is essentially sawdust right?

Sausage-inna-bun. CMOT Dibbler would be proud, no one else would.

So wait, are you telling me regulations actually help companies, too?

The U.S. won’t need regulations once the last of its trade partners gives up on it. We’ll be free to eat all the domestic lead and asbestos our dear masters deem necessary to feed us.

And it reduces its tax burden.

Gone in <100 days

There were no regulations that couldn't ever n made unrefrigerated raw milk safe in cities at the time. You either sold milk from cows raised in the city itself(which means cramped quarters and disease) or carted it in on a wagon (which means unrefrigerated milk sitting for hours). Adding formalin likely made it safer, it was so dangerous. The scandal thing played like it was what they were feeding cows (we feed cows high protein spent grains today and it's considered high quality feed), but the reality was milk in cities was always insane.

Not sure if you intended this, but you can absolutely get what you wrote to work with the timing (and same rhyme sounds/pattern, basically) of the first few lyrics of Guns N Roses 'Welcome to the Jungle', with minor modifications.

Welcome to the Jungle,

where we play dirty games.

Food safety sure costs a lot,

so fuck the FDA.

We are the people who hate fines,

Whatever they may be.

If you got no money, honey,

We got your disease.

etc.

(Wonderful that some of the lyrics don't have to change at all, nor really the chorus, yay internal bleeding.)

such a good read. should be required by all.

if Upton Sinclair was alive today he would flip his lid

Fun fact:

The precursor to the FDA was created during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. After the book was published, Roosevelt sent federal investigators to the Chicago slaughterhouses to validate the conditions detailed in the story.

The investigators reported that the conditions were worse than described in the book. And that was after the slaughterhouse owners got wind that the feds were coming and had everything cleaned from top to bottom.

Hard to imagine what "worse" looks like because the conditions detailed in the book are truly appalling.

Love the cover:

[Incidentally and entirely off-topic, it reminds me of the book(s) I'm reading right now: Josiah Bancroft's Tower of Babel tetralogy - urban steampunk jungle, vertically]