#regulations
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@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.
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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).
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@noodlemaz @chartier oh, yeh, I get that, it's just a bit rich for a people from a country with nearly no regulation to lecture the world about the importance of regulation.
It's the usual hegemonic play from Americans, at all levels. We live through this daily
@sortius @noodlemaz @chartier not sure why you're assuming the post is directed at non-Americans.
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A SHAMEFUL SHAM. "Quakers" Used in the Coffee We Buy. THAT IS THEIR TRADE NAME. Lady Tells What She Knows About the Frauds. Even the Whole - Berry Browned Coffee Is Full of the Vilest Adulterants.
"If the what-is-it coffee adulterant is the same stuff that they in the house I have been working for I can tell you what it is." Mrs. Minnie Le Long smiled as she said these words to THE CALL reporter.
"Yes; tell us, please,' said THE CALL man. "Well, it is old bread, musty barley and dough made from the cheapest kind of flour, all browned to the color of coffee and then ground up and mixed with the coffee." "Are you quite sure about that?" "Sure?" Mrs. Long laughed. "Of course I am sure."
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@chartier the capitalism we have is killing us anyway, but it’s nice not to eat chalk macaroni
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This is a lie, right?
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@sortius @noodlemaz @chartier not sure why you're assuming the post is directed at non-Americans.
@HunterZ @noodlemaz @chartier because it's posted on the internet. You do understand that the internet crosses the whole globe?
Aaah hegemonic peoples, everyone else doesn't exist unless you let them
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@chartier given that these reforms were due to the muckraking journalism era, it's entirely possible that some of them weren't told about this
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@chartier BWAHAHAHAHA...Oh, dear sweet naive child. In some economic systems just COMPLAINING that they were being fed spoiled food measurably could kill them faster than the tainted goods themselves. You think it's capitalism forcing one quarter of north korea to starve to death? Capitalism that created the Holodomor?
Become a better student of history. Regulations in many nations were ENTIRELY because it's ruling class enjoyed them was standard faire across the world until the late 1800's. -
@chartier Fast Forward to 2026 - Now, look and see
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And labor regulations are by and large written in blood.
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@chartier chalk is actually safe to eat and a good vegan source of calcium. Tums antacids are basically chalk
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@chartier Moreover, it should be expensive. Regulations exist to make it more expensive to do the ethically wrong things than the right things.
Non-compliance should be a terrifying, life-ruining event for a business.
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@chartier my "favourite" version of this is the fishing industry. Left to their own devices they will literally fish themselves out of business. Fisheries regulations are there to ensure that fisheries continue to exist.
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@chartier chalk is actually safe to eat and a good vegan source of calcium. Tums antacids are basically chalk
@babble_endanger @chartier The English used arsenic to adulterate their milk.
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@chartier BWAHAHAHAHA...Oh, dear sweet naive child. In some economic systems just COMPLAINING that they were being fed spoiled food measurably could kill them faster than the tainted goods themselves. You think it's capitalism forcing one quarter of north korea to starve to death? Capitalism that created the Holodomor?
Become a better student of history. Regulations in many nations were ENTIRELY because it's ruling class enjoyed them was standard faire across the world until the late 1800's.@Beggarmidas @chartier yeah sorry you have been endoctrinatef by the retarded us departement of education.
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@Beggarmidas @chartier yeah sorry you have been endoctrinatef by the retarded us departement of education.
@joel_falcou @chartier ....If you only knew even a fraction of how badly off base you are....I didnt have academic opportunities. I didn't even have a real chance to graduate from high school. I had to get my GED at 17. Why? Because i was randomly singled out for special abuse during the satanicpanic by hysterical zealots staffing PUHSD.
Now i'm not a man given to wantonly hurt, but if you'd said such a thing to my face at any point after age 15 you'd shortly be finding yourself spitting teeth. -
@Beggarmidas @chartier yeah sorry you have been endoctrinatef by the retarded us departement of education.
@joel_falcou @chartier I am what I am DESPITE a public school system wanting me dead. I educated myself as I travelled the world on the survival skills I was forced to perfect just to survive those years. I always had 2-3 college textbooks in my duffel to read filling dead time between gigs.
I don't let SM OP-ED bug me. But you've unintentionally stumbled into a minefeild because of all the lost life opportunities I might have had if it were even remotely true. knowing that now, care to reframe? -
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@babble_endanger @chartier The English used arsenic to adulterate their milk.
@PossumPartyGlider @babble_endanger @chartier
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.
