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Safety regulations are written in the blood of those who died from unsafe practices.
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Look up Harvey Washington Wileyand and his poison squad for the fun story.
What Conservatives would like us to forget is that many regulations are written in blood.
It wasn't chalk, it was borax. And that was because it neutralised the sour taste of turned milk.
From the wiki: "By the 1930s, muckraking journalists, consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began mounting a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products which had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure, which caused blindness, and worthless "cures" for diabetes and tuberculosis. The resulting proposed law was unable to get through Congress for five years, but was rapidly enacted into law following the public outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug formulated with a toxic, untested solvent."
I believe I've heard that the FDA was actually beneficial for capitalism as consumers would entirely avoid certain products out of fear, making it difficult to sell even legitimate goods.
That's not true:
They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism WILL kill you, not would.
And that’s why the Americans (Trump) are deleting regulations. Because regulations will cost the Oligarchs money. They’re sending innocent people to El Salvador. They’re stopping food regulations, they are spreading lies about inoculations that save lives. What is the point? They’re decreasing the population. Why are they doing this? There’s going to be no one left. (I’ve had one too many martinis)
I feel like there's at least one country who is going to learn this shit the hard way.
China has learned it multiple times. The plastic additives in baby formula causing infant deaths…
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Welcome to Uptown Sinclair's Jungle. You're going to die.
So what’s killing us now? Because last I heard life expectancy is dropping.
heart disease, cancer, COVID-19 and drug-overdose.
Infant mortality is steady,
under 25 mortality increased very slightly.
over 65 went up by 20%, that's where you find most of the heart disease and covid deaths, and it doesn't decrease the life expectancy that much, since they're already old.
The big problem is in the 25-55 bracket, because they're dying from overdoses a LOT, and that's hugely decreasing life expectancy. There's alcohol consumption too, which increases cancer risks and deaths. Cancer screenings have dropped off in this bracket too, thanks to cost, so "preventable" cancers like breast-, lung- and colon cancers are killing more people.
It seems to be less of a direct regulation issue, and more of a "life sucks, so people do drugs". Which one can (and SHOULD) argue is also a regulation issue, just less directly.
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