Upton Sinclair wrote an expose on how manipulated American factory workers were and how socialism was the answer. And everyone’s takeaway was just, “ew they’re putting rats in our food”. Which, yeah that sucks, but is kinda missing the bigger picture.

Anyway, whenever I see issues with the FDA being underfunded I think about some of the imagery in that book and cringe

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    yeah Sinclair said afterwards “I was aiming at the audience’s heart but missed and hit their stomach”

    But tbh reading it I am not sure how you could come away thinking food safety was the main point of the book unless you were willfully ignoring the rest of The Jungle where the poor immigrant family gets scammed and exploited. Or maybe nice middle class people read that and think it’s just the will of the free market for the poor to be brutalized but eww I don’t want gross sausage.