But chalk doesn't "unspoil" milk. Only changes its appearance.

You're creating strawpeople needlessly

Edit: got blocked for the above

Edit2: also fun that a person complains both about US-centrism AND that a non-anglo might not write using the same phrases as they themselves would.

Generally speaking EU-standards are more lax than the state standards they replaced (as one size has to fit all). This is somewhat offset by the fact that the EU-standards are more ubiquitous than the previous spot-checks.

The state standards were usually lobbied so that the worst local practices were grandfathered in to legislation, while disallowing practices found in imports. (The people most affected by the standards are also the people with most money. )

I encourage you to google Sinclair's The Jungle. Powdered rock mixed with flour was also very popular in the 19th century.

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@PossumPartyGlider@mastodon.au @babble_endanger@freeradical.zone @chartier@toot.cafe Also: the very common English practice of adding sand to flour to lower the price of bread. And who can forget THE JUNGLE, the horrible US expose that unintentionally caused the creation of the Food and Drug Administration by revealing that labourers' severed members being mixed to minced meat wasn't a reason to not sell end-product.

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Regulations became necessary due to so-called absentee landlords who were hard to lynch (for obvious reasons) if they overstepped social rules. And as is well-known, absentee landlords exist due to capitalism promoting them as the #1 way to add wealth. Unionbusting to keep labour down is also non-nonviolent.

Also: both your examples are of state capitalistic systems working under threat of war. Food poverty isn't limited presently to North Korea, as you well know.

Also: the very common English practice of adding sand to flour to lower the price of bread.

And who can forget THE JUNGLE, the horrible US expose that unintentionally caused the creation of the Food and Drug Administration by revealing that labourers' severed members being mixed to minced meat wasn't a reason to not sell end-product.

Non-compliance should be a terrifying, life-ruining event for a business.