• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      2 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.

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      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

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      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.”