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DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Those same meat peddlers were against the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906, saying that the time it takes to clean and label everything would slow them down and put them out of business. These fuckers would be selling rotting carcasses if they could.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    After reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt sent government agents to inspect the Chicago slaughterhouses. They conditions they found were worse than the book described and that was after the slaughterhouse owners found out government agents were coming and had their factories cleaned from top to bottom.

    Some of the stuff described in the book was just plain nasty so how it could have been worse is beyond me.

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