The Kitchen Cartel: Pure Food & Drug Act 1906
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Truth About Chemical Deception
The real version is a little ugly, but edible and substantive. The crispy fried batter wasn't so much flour as it was sawdust and insect parts that the pickles were given their bright green color courtesy of toxic copper oxide. Now imagine that all this is legal. You would go to the grocery store ind every aisle is a game of russian roulette because companies would have no obligation to tell you what's in the stuff they're sell They had no legal obligation to keep you safe. Their only obligation was to their own profit margins. Thankfully, that is not the case to day.
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