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News & ArtsWednesday, September 1, 2010
Chow Capitalism Then; Capitalism Now
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Karl Marx on "the discoveries of an 1863 royal commission into baking":
Englishmen, with their good command of the Bible, knew well enough that man, unless by elective grace a capitalist, or a landlord, or the holder of a sinecure, is destined to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow, but they did not know that he had to eat daily in his bread a certain quantity of human perspiration mixed with the discharge of abscesses, cobwebs, dead cockroaches and putrid German yeast, not to mention alum, sand and other agreeable mineral ingredients.
Yahoo News on an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration:
FDA officials released their initial observations of the investigations at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms on Monday. The two farms recalled more than half a billion eggs after salmonella illnesses were linked to their products earlier this month.Now where's this progress that's so much talked about?The reports released by the FDA show many different possible sources of contamination at both farms, including rodent, bug and wild bird infestation, uncontained manure, holes in walls and other problems that could have caused the outbreak. Several positive samples of salmonella have been found at both farms.
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Hilarious...and horrifying.
One of my theses is that the 20th century will be described as the pinnacle of horror for human existence.
Guess it hasn't totally ended yet.
One of my theses is that the 20th century will be described as the pinnacle of horror for human existence.
Guess it hasn't totally ended yet.
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But Charles, my dear, this IS progress. In 1863 a merchant could at best spread his favors apon dozens, perhaps at the most hundreds, of his fellow countrymen. Today, thanks to advancements in modern science he can contaminate hundreds of millions in one fell swoop.
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Right Chuck, nothing, nothing at all, has changed since 1863. Everything is exactly the same or much much worse.
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Well, you see, we used to have this thing called the FDA, until they gutted it and made it the only agency in all of government specifically charged with MARKETING for its charges, not policing them.
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Progress since 1863? Like in life expectancy? Rates of starvation and disease? Rates of violent death? Rates of poverty? Rates of sexism and racism?
Oh, but yeah, once in a while we discover a filthy egg farm, so there must not be any progress.
Oh, but yeah, once in a while we discover a filthy egg farm, so there must not be any progress.
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Let me just add that to suggest that this illegally filthy egg farm is an indication that there has been no progress in food production since 1863 is at Glenn Beck levels of stupid childishness.
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It was a Republican Salmonella outbreak, and those were Republican eggs. When Republicans say they want small unintuitive government, this is what they mean.
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