On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:32:44 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 1/30/2020 6:29 PM, wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 4:53:15 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> Did anyone here see the PBS show about "The Poison Squad"? Just aired a
>>> couple of nights ago (locally).
>>>
>>> It's a documentary about the man who first demanded food safety tests
>>> and food labelling. Trying to promote safe food. Back around the turn
>>> of the last century.
>>>
>>> It was extremely interesting. Also alarming what sort of things were
>>> added to food before anyone had any idea what affects it might have.
>>>
>>> https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...sly-experiment
>>>
>>> "1883, conducted a rather grisly experiment on human volunteers to help
>>> make food safer for consumers €” and his work still echoes on today.
>>>
>>> Still quoting "Wiley was an indefatigable activist for food safety
>>> regulations during a time when the food industry was organizing and
>>> adding substances to food without any oversight, using its might to put
>>> profits before people. But Wiley and his small band of chemists began
>>> methodically testing suspected harmful additives and revealing the
>>> effects of these dangerous compounds to the government and public."
>>>
>>> I don't know about you, but I'd rather be able to read a label and know
>>> there is no alum mixed in with my flour.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>> I missed the first 10 or 15 minutes of it but it was definitely eye opening!
>> Quite an interesting program and simply appalling the number of people who
>> wanted to silence him. It's a wonder anyone lived to adulthood with the
>> stuff they put in food.
>>
>He persevered! Everyone wanted to silence him.

The poor man must have felt exactly like I feel in RFC!