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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago

When people claim the free market will fix things, the thousands of examples that lead to 99% of regulations are why those people should be laughed at and told to shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You should read the book "The Jungle" as it is part of the early investigative journalism and contains very specific details that will make you want to vomit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've read The Jungle Book and it didn't make me vomit at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

No I haven't read The Different Book, sorry mate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Oh, there's more fun in the article.

They also faked the look of rich cream by using a yellowish layer of pureed calf brains. As a historian of the Indiana health department wrote: “People could not be induced to eat brain sandwiches in [a] sufficient amount to use all the brains, and so a new market was devised.”

“Surprisingly enough,’’ he added, “it really did look like cream but it coagulated when poured into hot coffee.”