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Bread in the US and UK in the 18th and 19th centuries was often adulterated with plaster, alum, bone meal, chalk, clay, or sawdust.
Unadulterated capitalism = adulterated bread (& etc).
@chartier @DoomsdaysCW Oh, let me tell you an anecdote.
The European Union has been very slow in coordinating and unifying its consumer protections.
Spain joined the EEC in 1986.
But back in 1984 we had one of the strictest consumer protection laws; it took years for the EU to "reach us" in stuff like informative labels. We also had quirks like a prohibition of bulk buying (as in, unpackaged) to final consumers.
And it was because back in 1981, 330 people died and thousands got seriously ill from industrial-use oil sold as food-grade. To this day, people won't buy canola oil because the name sounds as poison. The case was a form of collective trauma.
@chartier or were never told about it to begin with?
@chartier Always funny seeing Americans say that stuff.
Chlorine chicken, mystery beef, no testing regime, constant outbreaks of salmonella... yep, regulations are working great there
And labor regulations are by and large written in blood.
@chartier
"Food regulations faltered.
Then people started shitting the bed.
Literally."
@chartier
The number of people who are actively making a profit off of poisoning us is on the rise.
@chartier the capitalism we have is killing us anyway, but it’s nice not to eat chalk macaroni
@chartier ⏫pure unadulterated capitalism IS killing us
@chartier
Can you fix the "kill" in the alt text. Censuring is problematic
