Look up Harvey Washington Wileyand and his poison squad for the fun story.

Hence, the defunding of education, and specifically critical thinking. That is by design. You can’t easily control the population when they can read and think for themselves.

When I told my parents how we got things like the 40 hour work week they were fucking mortified. Something seemingly so inconsequential, many people died for.

I think it would help to have history-oriented comics and manga in schools. I learned to enjoy history, in no small part on account of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe series. Making things approachable is how people progress from knowing nothing to being a college graduate.

but the catch is the majority of people have to read the fucking words for that to matter.

Hell, I'd even settle for more people watching classic movies and TV shows. People need to maintain some link to the past to see the mindset of those who lived through fascism, wars, etc. and absorb what a society that rejects those ideas looks like.

Culture is a big part of our collective memory, and a society that can't look back will just reinvent the same problems.

This, so much this..

I tire of people saying "VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET", when the problem is far more systemic than a "couple bad actors greedy for the green"

3 stars. I dislike that it killed my baby, but shipping was really fast!

I realy would like to fact check you on this, but i will definitely not search for "naked coal mining children". "Trust me bro" will have to do it for this one.

The fact that these fucks were not regularly dragged from their mansions and beaten to death blows my mind

Fun fact:

The precursor to the FDA was created during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. After the book was published, Roosevelt sent federal investigators to the Chicago slaughterhouses to validate the conditions detailed in the story.

The investigators reported that the conditions were worse than described in the book. And that was after the slaughterhouse owners got wind that the feds were coming and had everything cleaned from top to bottom.

Hard to imagine what "worse" looks like because the conditions detailed in the book are truly appalling.

Not sure if you intended this, but you can absolutely get what you wrote to work with the timing (and same rhyme sounds/pattern, basically) of the first few lyrics of Guns N Roses 'Welcome to the Jungle', with minor modifications.

Welcome to the Jungle,

where we play dirty games.

Food safety sure costs a lot,

so fuck the FDA.

We are the people who hate fines,

Whatever they may be.

If you got no money, honey,

We got your disease.

etc.

(Wonderful that some of the lyrics don't have to change at all, nor really the chorus, yay internal bleeding.)

I mean if you think about it, cinnamon is essentially sawdust right?

This is already happening a lot. Take poultry for example.

In the USA, you can chemically rinse chicken (usually in acids, but in the past in chlorine) so that it won't have any Salmonella or Campylobacter bateria on it.

The EU, you're not allowed to do that, but you're also not allowed to have those bacteria. That means you have to raise the chickens in a MUCH cleaner environment. The same goes for eggs, which you can't wash, so they have to be clean from the farm.

As a result, you can't export US chicken to the EU, because it doesn't meet the safety standards. And that's about to get worse. You can absolutely export EU chicken to the US, but it likely won't be competitively priced.

1000% my first thought. These nutjobs who say “just get some fresh air” are coasting upon the millions of dead and buried who paid the price for us to have longer healthier lives. Strict stringent food safety. Mandatory vaccines without exemptions.

As someone who works in materials/workplace safety, I can absolutely vouch that there are stupid regulations that should be scrapped. I have no doubt there are stupid regulations in food-safety, because there are stupid regulations everywhere. Recently here in the Netherlands we changed regulations for toxic residu in soil to distinguish between "Things that are bad for plants and animals" and "Things that are bad for humans". That made things more complex, but it also means you don't have to wear a hazmat suit to protect yourself from a dose of zink that's roughly equal to a multivitamin a day (which, funfact, will absolutely murder fish).

But you know who shouldn't get to decide which regulations are stupid? The people who stand to make money off of scrapping regulations.