The Kitchen Cartel: Pure Food & Drug Act 1906
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Food Industry and Its Struggle to Make America Safe
For the most part, our modern food supply is safe and heavily regulated. But in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, it was a jungle,. A wild west of lies, land mines and horrific duplicity. Parents were as likely to give their kids a toxic dose of lead as they were a nutritious meal. So what changed? Why don't we have poisons and toxins on our food to day? Did large corporations just suddenly grow a conscience and decide to do the right thing? No, it took decades of reform and struggle and dead ends to make it happen. Well, to day's episode is about that struggle, about the handful of men and women who fought tooth and nail to make
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