Regulations, like labor laws, are written in blood. Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated. Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic. Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery. Blood. - ThreadSky

azteclady.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Regulations, like labor laws, are written in blood.

Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated.
Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic.
Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery.

Blood.

Reposted from azteclady

This is the part.

Keeping people alive by not poisoning the plants and animals they eat cost money--that's what the fuck "regulations" are about. The press has willingly cooperated with corporations to pretend "regulations" just increase food prices for no reason.

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cursed.monster•24 days ago

And, frequently, fire

azteclady.bsky.social•24 days ago

Indeed.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, anyone?

annabookwriter.bsky.social•24 days ago

My mom works for an FDA regulated body and she says this every time she encounters a roadblock. “It’s annoying but it’s there for a reason. That reason is usually somebody died.”

kbkev.bsky.social•24 days ago

That's not a fair comparison. Your mom is probably not a juvenile fray-boy who has failed forward his whole mediocre life, giddy with power and greed. She is likely a responsible, mature person.

So you see, there are two sides to this.

annabookwriter.bsky.social•24 days ago

No, thank god, my mom is a decent person who likes it when children survive childhood and adults don’t have to worry about poisoning themselves and kids.

azteclady.bsky.social•24 days ago

People still die because regulations aren't enforced, but at least most of the public can trust--to a fairly high degree--that buying food at a grocery store or going to a restaurant (fast food or Michelin) shouldn't end up in outright poisoning.

They way these fuckers are going, that won't last.

annabookwriter.bsky.social•24 days ago

And I don’t think “normie” people are prepared for the reality of not being able to trust the food they eat.

kbkev.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's not hypothetical. This was last year.

annabookwriter.bsky.social•24 days ago

I am extremely aware as an immunocompromised person.

cathypegau.bsky.social•22 days ago

The number of people who have to die before anything is considered to be done is going to go higher.

azteclady.bsky.social•22 days ago

I fear that we are going to see greater social inequity and mortality than there was even at the worst of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s before enough people realize THEY COULD BE NEXT (poisoned, maimed, etc), and get off their "well, it's not that bad now, is it" fuckery.

cathypegau.bsky.social•22 days ago

Agreed.
"Wait, now white upper middle class/rich folks are being hurt and killed???? We need to do something!"

azteclady.bsky.social•22 days ago

It kind of becomes urgent in a hurry when it affects the people who've been insulated from this bullshit for generations, so the white descendants of the first white labor unions and so forth will finally understand WHY their paw paw gave a fuck about his neighbors.

Hopefully.

cathypegau.bsky.social•22 days ago

🤞

azteclady.bsky.social•24 days ago

Blood.

azteclady.bsky.social•24 days ago

The point is: with a functional FDA (and other regulating agencies) you at least get recalls, wherein you LEARN shit is poisoned before it kills you, and you can even get a refund when corporations cut corners that could kill you.

https://bsky.app/profile/kbkev.bsky.social/post/3lgvwjr7e5c24

azteclady.bsky.social•24 days ago

All of this, AND: school vaccination requirements.

Before the U.S. established school vaccination requirements, millions of children died of preventable illnesses. Allowing parents to deny vaccination for their children is killing children again.

kbkev.bsky.social•24 days ago

The agony with stopping vaccinations is that the effects will take time to materialize, but when they do, it will be a catastrophe. Meanwhile, it will be like climate change, "this one case of Polio doesn't mean..."

azteclady.bsky.social•22 days ago

Bringing it back to the post that set me off in the first place:

bobcorrigan.bsky.social•22 days ago

Meat is inspected for reasons.
Produce is inspected for reasons.
Temperature and sanitary standards exist for reasons.
Formulation requirements exist for reasons.
Packaging standards exist for reasons.

Reasons == Lives

electricland.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’ve had arguments back on Twitter with libertarian bros who insisted the market would take care of all this and I hadn’t realized anyone could be that astoundingly ignorant

azteclady.bsky.social•22 days ago

It's profoundly baffling to me to hear grown-ass adults, whom I had thought reasonably well educated, not realizing that "the market" exist exclusively to increase profit as quickly as possible, to hell with who is hurt, maimed or killed--from production to consumption.

Like. Read some history?

electricland.bsky.social•22 days ago

“Well people will just take their business to the companies that aren’t putting poison in the food” sir are you a literal baby

azteclady.bsky.social•22 days ago

Right?

During the #LetThemEatCereal thing back in early March 2024, and as we moved on from Kellogg's to Nestlé, one of the biggest problems is that it's nigh impossible to tell who makes/sells what, and when you do, you find it's like three megacorps, all in collusion with each other. What then?

vertigoddity.bsky.social•24 days ago

Building and fire codes come to mind too!

shademar.bsky.social•24 days ago

Triangle Shirtwaist fire gave us fire exit regs.
Diethylene glycol (DEG) poisonings gave us the FDA.
A persistent researcher at FDA spared the US most of the horrors of Thalidomide.

And so on. Blood, ash, deformations...that is the ink regulations are writ in.

chickgonebad.bsky.social•24 days ago

Like, has nobody read The Jungle?

tyrotcm.bsky.social•24 days ago

Radiation.

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