• ClownStatue@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Exactly. Every one of those fuckers will happily vote R again after their herds all die off, because “RepUbLIcnS er BeTr for du EcoNiMeE!”

    • null@lemmy.org
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      Those same meat peddlers were against the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906, saying that the time it takes to clean and label everything would slow them down and put them out of business. These fuckers would be selling rotting carcasses if they could.

      • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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        After reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt sent government agents to inspect the Chicago slaughterhouses. They conditions they found were worse than the book described and that was after the slaughterhouse owners found out government agents were coming and had their factories cleaned from top to bottom.

        Some of the stuff described in the book was just plain nasty so how it could have been worse is beyond me.