When people claim the free market will fix things, the thousands of examples that lead to 99% of regulations are why those people should be laughed at and told to shut the fuck up.

You should read the book "The Jungle" as it is part of the early investigative journalism and contains very specific details that will make you want to vomit

Oh, there's more fun in the article.

They also faked the look of rich cream by using a yellowish layer of pureed calf brains. As a historian of the Indiana health department wrote: “People could not be induced to eat brain sandwiches in [a] sufficient amount to use all the brains, and so a new market was devised.”

“Surprisingly enough,’’ he added, “it really did look like cream but it coagulated when poured into hot coffee.”

Well I mean yeah. Because their constituents have the educations of gerbils in cages. They believe whatever slopp is spoon-fed to them by their propaganda arm, Faux News. And then when the bad things happen, the blame it on a liberal conspiracy and their idiots will lap it up and vote them back into office over and over and over again.

Kinda close... women painted lume on clock dials and arms. They were told the luminous radium paint was safe and they used their lips to put a point on the paintbrushes they were using. The same companies that told them it was safe pushed the dentists and doctors seeing the effects attribute it to STDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls has a really good summary.

welp, if/when things go south in november and we get a new american god king, the executive decree eliminating the FDA brings all this back, right? gotta look for silver linings and all that jazz.

"one night brand cough syrup - you wont even remember you had a democracy!"

"We've investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong."

I prefer the 20% stuff

Doesn't seem possible considering it's a per ounce listing.

Perhaps it's suggesting less than 1% impurity in the alcohol; i.e. methanol content?