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Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
Sheril Kirshenbaum
in reply to MEActNOW • • •Chalk added to milk was the least of it.
While researching a story on this for radio, I learned they also used plaster of paris and pureed calf brains.
A lot of people, including children died. #Food safety regulation is critical. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… #health #uspol
Calf Brains and Other Disgusting 19th-Century Ingredients
Deborah Blum (The Atlantic)