Monkey puppet meme looking away. Europeans watching the US weaken food and safety regulations.
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[โ€“] 49 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You think that's bad, milk was so much worse. Companies fed cows leftover brewing grains which made their milk shitty, added cow brain to imitate cream, plaster of Paris to whiten it, and formaldehyde to preserve it. Thousands of kids died because of it and it's a big part of why the FDA was founded in the first place.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    OP forgot to mention that everything they were talking about was going on over 119 years ago as the FDA was founded in 1906

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 11 months ago

    I didn't forget, the context of who I replied to said "like they used to before the FDA" and I provided an example of what was happening before the FDA. Also yeah it was over a hundred years ago but what do you suppose has made stories like swill milk seem like a thing of the past? It's not capitalists being more enlightened or empathetic it's regulation. Those stories and more are going to pop back up again as the US guts the FDA

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