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Swill Milk Scandal (wikipedia.org)
5 points by croes 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Stories like these where bad actors take over regulatory bodies make me curious why people are so trusting of central government authorities especially when it comes to the food that they consume. Sometimes there isn't a better option but people will religiously defend an org (FDA) that allows sales and marketing to children of food that contains chemicals and dyes that are known to be harmful by European regulatory bodies.


The FDA was founded in 1906. They are the reason we don’t have formaldehyde in our meat nor chalk in our milk. Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to understand why people defend the FDA.


And pizza is a vegetable.


I'm not sure I understand. Was the problem caused by the swill or by the adulteration an horrible sanitary conditions?




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