Shout this!
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Xactly
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The same people who don't trust the government or scientists or the news believe that companies will do the right thing and never do anything to hurt the consumer.
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What is wrong with people!! Clean air ✔️ clean water ✔️ Clean food ✔️ toxic free environments ✔️ not hard!
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As ghastly as things are, on my bleakest days I think well, at least a majority of Americans will understand the essential things the government does. Back when they did.
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OSHA regulations, like military field manuals, are written in blood of the dead and maimed
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The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair shook the nation as this novel exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry. People freaked out and laws were made for food safety that we enjoy today. We cannot allow them to pull this back like everything else.
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And you can extend that to any industry. I was a kid when the story about how Ford knew the Pinto could catch fire if it was rear-ended and decided it was cheaper to pay out lawsuits rather than fix the problem.
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Yes! Never underestimate what a company will do to make a buck, avoid a recall, get that product out the door. Oversight and quality checks keep us safe...if we have them anymore.
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Truth !
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In the complete absurdity of Trump appointees for high gov't offices the worst (?) is RFK Jr who is a complete fool.
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Exactly! Regulations are for consumer protection!
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enter Dr Harvey Wiley
Dr. Harvey Wiley and the Crusade for Food Safety in the Progressive Era | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS LearningMedia
Learn why U.S. government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley decided to test dangerous food preservatives on human subjects in order to raise public awareness and pressure Congress to regulate food production i...
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Hello??? Exactly
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Everyone needs to read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. It depicts all the crap they used to put into food before regulations. I had to read it in high school. Back when they taught stuff that might make you feel uncomfortable.
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Too many regular Americans have been duped by RW radio and TV into thinking that all regulations are bad.
EG: They’ve been led to believe annoying local regs that inhibit what homeowners can do on their own property are equivalent to regs on corporations
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Pure, unadulterated capitalism IS killing us.
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Shouted...
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Every regulation is written in the blood of those who died before it existed.
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As a greedy capitalist I would agree with the statement that we take what we can take and government is the backstop to taking it all at every ones risk
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Regulations protect people and planet from GREED!
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Yes.
Your "regulations" are my protections.
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I do take exception to the statement that Capitalism caused this. It was unadulterated human GREED that caused it. Greed and the Love of Money.
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just as labor always precedes capital injury always precedes regulation
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Three words: flammable baby pajamas. Not food, I guess, but if you say them to any libertarian, they get really upset.
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It’s simple. Regulations protect the consumer. Deregulation protects and helps companies and corporations.
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Life expectancy at the beginning of the 20th Century in America was in the early 40s because of infectious disease lack, maternal mortality, and unsafe living conditions. Republicans want to bring this back. Not even they know why anymore.
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Life expectancy at the beginning of the 20th Century in America was in the early 40s because of infectious disease lack, maternal mortality, and unsafe living conditions. Republicans want to bring this back. Not even they know why anymore.
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The notion by Republicans that corporations will self-regulate is ludicrous.
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it doesnt take a genius.
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PSA for those who don’t 💭! Or can’t or whatever!! 😫
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Other FDA work: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found asbestos in a bottle of J&J’s talc-based baby powder in 2019.
In case you question its important: Many consumers developed mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and other asbestos-related diseases from this asbestos contamination.
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Hell yes!
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Even with such a steady hand on the ships wheel, like RFK Jr.
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I guess no more truth in advertising! Can't even trust the accuracy of food labels anymore, who knows if they include all the ingredients!
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Yes, socialism won’t do us in. Insufficiently regulated capitalism will. Be careful what you ask for, MAGA.
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Great book with lots of details is The Poison Squad
How A 19th Century Chemist Took On The Food Industry With A Grisly Experiment
Deborah Blum's book, The Poison Squad, tells how Harvey Washington Wiley and his band of chemists crusaded to remove toxins, such as arsenic and borax, from food. How? By testing them on volunteers.
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The reason the Feds took over many programs is because Southern states wouldn't take care of their citizens. Schools, health, roads, and education were at a third world level.
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It’s called “unfettered capitalism”. If you don’t care about food, drug, water and workplace safety among other concerns then, by all means, go for it!
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I call it toxic capitalism
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Or as some say "the law is written in blood."
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Big companies don't regulate themselves. They worship the bottom line.
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Tell it!
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I feel similarly when I see GenZ women talking about women taking "traditional" marriage roles and letting their husbands decide everything.
Do you think they called it "women's LIBERATION" for fun?
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Every one of those regulations is written in blood. Maybe not fatally, though often enough it was, but because companies could not be trusted to self-regulate & not harm their customers when it was more profitable to do so.
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If only the “people” in charge cared.
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Watch The Poison Squad. Excellent documentary about the history of the FDA and why we have it and need it!!
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“…besides paying the rent, were…bound to perform a great number of services to the landlord, which were seldom either specified in the lease, or regulated…therefore, being almost entirely arbitrary, subjected the tenant to many vexations.”
—Adam Smith
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They're gonna kill us all.
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Have been thinking about this in the wake of Texas flooding. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov need to do a better job of educating the public about what regulations/govt DO for society that is in their best interests.
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#AltText
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Be wary of small business owners who complain about regulations. They want to be able to cut corners to improve their profits, just like corporations.
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Corporations believe they can pollute and poison us as long as they make a profit doing it.
Trump has killed over 100 environmental regulations this year.
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Time for everyone to reread The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.
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In other words, pure capitalism would result in more totally unrestricted and unrestrained, GREED,which esp. right at this moment, is what we non-billionaires are being forced into now, thanks to that disgusting “tax cut.”
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Can't shout, too busy wondering why every carton of milk for the last month or so has gone bad before we could finish it...
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Spot on
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yeah, the current evil clown car Administration had ChatGPT read The Jungle to them (obv can't read it themselves) and the lesson they took away was that things were great then.
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Yes! The regulations that companies bleat about exist to protect their consumers from the flagrant excesses the very same companies perpetrated in the first place.
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fwiw I thought The Radium Girls was an interesting read.
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So true.
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Thank you!
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China was adding antifreeze to infant formula and toothpaste to make them sweeter, killing infants and anyone who brushed their teeth. That’s what you want for us in the US with no federal regulations? More girls camps built on flood plains? More companies able to kill customers?🤬
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ACTUAL COCAINE in the Coca-Cola.
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This is why Republicans will only talk in the abstract about “cutting regulations”, like they’re clearing weeds, or something.
They never talk about the specifics of the regs that they’re proposing to eliminate, because they don’t want you to know that the reg was there to keep you from harm.
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Try reading The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, about sanitary conditions in the meat packing industry, which led to reforms and regulations. 😳 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jun...
The Jungle - Wikipedia
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And lunatics, don't forget the lunatics. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
How the Tylenol murders of 1982 changed the way we consume medication
Early on the morning of Sept. 29, 1982, a tragic, medical mystery began with a sore throat and a runny nose. It was then that Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old girl from Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chi...
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Libertarianism kills.
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Now that SCOTUS has carved a path for nationwide class action lawsuits, this is a potential one for endangering citizens by removing proven safety protocols and standards. How do they plan on making America healthy if they are stripping regulations? Ffs.
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Republicans are for killing Americans by any means even children and they prove it daily
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"adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal"
That's the same type of shit they do in China.
I've seen the Youtube videos and it's terrifying
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Regulations are not a burden government imposes on business. They're a burden business imposes on society.
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My favorite factoid is that distillers pushed for the creation of the FDA because bootleggers were killing their customers and it was ruining bourbon’s reputation.
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Bingo
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"Libertarians" and "Objectivists" are among the stupidest and most naïve people that ever lived.
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Unfortunately, maga probably won't mind finding a ground up finger or hand in the bratwurst at the next family cookout.
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Didn't anyone read "The Jungle"🙄
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REGULATIONS ARE PROTECTIONS
FOR US!!!
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Change "would kill us" to "will kill us" and we have a good description of where we are today.
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And ground up people in meat
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High schools may not require reading of "The Jungle" anymore.
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That's just one example. How about spraying meat with bleach? Or food coloring. Personally, I buy nothing with the word "flavoring" in the list. That means zero baking mixes - for over 20 years. Eat that Pillsberry :)
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You are so right! If MAGA has its way, all regulations would be gone so they can speed up production and profits. Pretty evil and deadly for America!
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We're heading back to the days Upton Sinclair wrote about in The Jungle which prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to create the FDA.
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This brings to mind Melamine found in cat food, some years back. MELAMINE!!! Even our fur babies are in jeopardy!
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But our government has never done anything to educate American citizens of these benefits. The culture shifted at least 70 years ago and the rightness of government regulation was no longer just understood. The Reagan administration actively demonized regulation….1/2
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RIGHT
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And now it will
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And RFK, jr is pushing unpasteurized milk..can you imagine how that will go?
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But if you don’t know shit about our history…….you really don’t know shit.
Bingo!!! I figured it out. These people are mostly just stupid. Some are evil pieces of shit. But most are just dumb as fuck.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jun...
The Jungle - Wikipedia
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teachdemocracy.org/online-lesso....
BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry - Online Lessons - Bill of Rights in Action - Teach Democracy
Teach Democracy FOUNDATION Bill of Rights in Action FALL 2008 (Volume 24, No. 1) Reform Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China | Upton Sinclair's The Jungle  ...
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Ditto labor laws/unions.
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Replace the word “regulation” with “protection” every time because that is what it’s doing, protecting ordinary people.
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The problem with companies lobbying Congress to get rid of regulations is that the fines are minor and easier for them to pay than stick to regulations. If the fines were astronomical, these companies would stick to the regulations because their bottom line is more important.
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For those who favor deregulation, I offer a single word Boeing.
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My favorite is selling slightly spoiled meat, or things they KNOW were contaminated with something. What are the poor going to do, not eat? MOST of them didn't die, just got sick for a while. The deaths were "acceptable losses" so long as the company made money
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And the actual decent corps like this because they won't be undercut as easily by others doing unsafe acts. They all have to follow the same basic rules.
