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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Well, some of us like to know how sausages are made.  |
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Originally Posted by BookCat
This has gone right over my head. Don't understand it. |
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. – John Godfrey Saxe
And here are some quotes from Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle:
These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together.
"There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white.
There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had trampled and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs."
Evidently the American president at the time (Teddy Roosevelt?) thought Sinclair was inventing this stuff but on investigation, it was found that what he wrote was pretty much factual and reality was often worse that he had written. The investigation led to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.