We used to add formaldehyde to milk too. Seems worse than chalk to me.
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The capitalism we have NOW is actually killing people.
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.
For more fun stuff on why the FDA should exist, but also some of their bad stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1UD3qjA5A
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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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.
That's gonna make the cows mad. And mad cows will make US mad.
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