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And someone saw that thought "Huh....their tails keep falling off. I'm sure the babies will be fine. Gotta think of the shareholders".
Regulations are bathed in the blood of innocents. If left to their own devices, corporations will do everything they can to maximize profits and see the sickness or death of innocents as an acceptable loss.
HollaAtchaKoi
Disgusting
AMercer
There are too many people who are not only gladly willing to poison us in order to make a couple more dollars, they laugh about it.
wyrmbear
This is the point of gutting these regulations.
INeverReadTheTOS
Regulations are never pre-emptive. For every rule or regulation put in place, someone has already done the thing it forbids.
TI99Kitty
"See, and they wouldn't tell you that, unless somebody had DONE it!" --Jeff Foxworthy
(just something that popped into my head every time I saw the disclaimer "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION" on the catfish blood bait at Walmart)
skapanda616
wannasee
#5 they were so willing to abuse the cows and humans alike for the sake of profit. Because no one told them that it was wrong, the animals and humans, alike, were mass slaughtered for it. Also learning how women were socially pressured to stop breastfeeding their own children, for the sake of profit is heartbreaking. Women, children, and animals suffered so somebody could make a buck.
Fishkeeper
It wasn't for lack of being told it was wrong. They knew damn well that it was wrong. That's why they pretended not to be doing it.
wannasee
And that is precisely why there had to be laws to creative consequences for the wrongs things they had to be told not to do.
Jaxotea
https://bigthink.com/the-past/swill-milk-scandal/
Sauce source ???
coffeeandprozac
It's funny - those distilleries could've made a decent profit by selling their leftover grain as compost for field fertilizer, which would've helped feed the cattle without making them sick.
It's astounding how quickly morality is abandoned in favor of the faster, yet less sustainable, dollar.
B3N15
We have rules because people are too stupid, to greedy, and/or to malicious to use common sense
elusiveenchilada
Every regulation is written in blood.
bekkayya
turns out blood isnt enough. We have to actually care. And, if we had cared, the blood wouldnt have needed to be spilled at all.
Sulanis
Regulations help people. Deregulation helps corporate profits only.
Higure
To a point. There is definitely such a thing as too much regulation, that only huts company profits and helps no one. There are definitely places where regulations can be trimmed of fat without actually increasing any risks.
LoudBirb
The problem is that while that's probably true, every time someone says that and I ask them to specify, they give me a sample regulation that, after some research, turns out had a similar story as the swill milk.
Higure
Just from recent memory here in Norway. Construction companies are required to have employees go through training on power tools they use. Which is good. But if the company has at their disposal angle grinders from two different manufacturers, and an employee has only had a course for one of them, they can't touch the other until they have had a full course on that too. Not even a simplified one. Also, a lot of documentation has to be filled in by hand that modern equipment can do automatically.
LoudBirb
I'm gonna bet that's because at some point someone got an angle grinder from an unfamiliar model embedded in their face or body.
The documentation thing could almost definitely be improved, but that's just a natural part of the expense and difficulty of transition from physical to digital records. Everyone has that problem.
Higure
You could be right, of course. But I'm more of the mind that whoever wrote the legislation said "to use a power tool, you need a course from the manufacturer", and didn't think about the ramifications.
sphericalworld
To make sure it’s perfectly clear, the Trump administration wants to shutter OSHA, the consumer protection board, the FCC and more. Literally any government program designed to protect people is being dismantled. During his first term he defunded the Chemical Safety Board that investigates industrial accidents. They are trying to fucking kill us.
MerriMod
Have you ever read a warning label on an appliance that says something mind-numbingly obvious, like "don't insert a hot curling iron into any orifices"? Something that makes you think "surely nobody could actually be so stupid as to do that"? That warning is there BECAUSE someone was indeed stupid enough to do that.
Regulations are the same. Any time you see a regulation that says something that sounds unbelievably stupid or evil, it's because A COMPANY FUCKING DID EXACTLY THAT FOR PROFIT.
yikesaroni
yes but repubs have successfully marketed the point of view that being against regulations makes you a cool rebellious rockstar, and that supporting trump/GOP is the masculine thing to do
pgaulrapp
There are no cool, rebellious rockstars in the GOP. Every cool rock star in history has been ultra liberal. Name three cool conservatives.
The701
What's truly nuts is that I know some Trump-voters who want strong government regulation of businesses specifically because they'll do stuff like poison people for profit. These Trump-voters also want universal healthcare.
Still Trump voters. It hurts to attempt to comprehend it.
SteveD31415
On the other hand my lawn mower stops when I let go of the handle to safeguard people who literally pick the lawn mower up and use it for a hedge clipper.
UnlimitedTrickPony
most of US food is banned over here in Europe as carcinogenic or otherwise hazardous to health
ToSisPoS
That was journalism.
PedanticAsshat
Regulations are written in blood
L0rdinquisit0r
Does this explain the old insult of Milk Drinker? because growing up on it would have affected their growth making them look off.
Merky600
The illustrations in here. Editorial cartoons.
this book turned me into a progressive at age 12
Munchman347
Herr Shitzenpants, 'So, people tell me, "Sir, there's this great American made product", I love American made things, my blue funeral suit is mostly American assembled, "The thing is called Swill Milk", I love American swill, "We can help US milk sellers by allowing it's sale once more!"... 'I'm gonna give them some of my pre-signed EO Blanks to fill in. You farmers can thank me with a donation...' 💩🤑
ireallydontthinkso
i guess americans will have to learn that lesson agian.
evilspock
Consumer protection laws are WRITTEN IN BLOOD.
Every one of them. They exist because people died.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. OSHA exists because dead workers is cheaper than safety equipment.
And it's all under attack by Donny and his band of fascists.
bourbonandbaddecisions
And Upton Sinclair wept
dreammer243
Article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swill-milk-scandal-new-york-city
PicassoCT
#1 Eh, it was not chalk. It was borax - to hide the acidity that the bacteria produces when milk spoils. Its poisonous, and the milk gives you diehardreeha. They also used to produce "whiter" bread, by adding plaster, chalk or alum to it
LariCheltsy
Fishkeeper
Way to announce your own unwillingness to learn.
dontrike
So you admit to being unable to read.
LariCheltsy
I can read, well, and do. I work in dairy AND in butcher shop. I only wanted something brief enough to ingest during my break.
dontrike
That's only about 1,000 words. That's readable in under 5 minutes.
LariCheltsy
dontrike
Is this supposed to mean something? You can just say "I don't read quickly," it's fine if that's the case.
Axiomatic13
You're so apathetic that you came to this post and posted your own meme from your own hard drive? Nah, that tells me you care a lot, actually?
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
the overwhelming majority of regulations are put in place in response to vile evil companies have done. And those that havent, were put in
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place because people with a scant 2 brain cells to rub together could figure out how those vile, evil companies would exploit something if
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
they didnt pre-emptively act. The right wing painting regulations as some big mean asshole masturbating furiously over making
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
things "hard" for poor businesses and customers is not only a lie, but an insult to humanity and a white wash of the evils done in the past
CrispyNougat
You're not limited to 140 characters per reply
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
stillnotawake
Sounds like some regulations should have been in place before you sold me that copper.
IAmTheBadW01f
Except for the ones put in place by companies to stifle competition
blaghart
such as?
IAmTheBadW01f
Kentucky passing a law regulating who is allowed to diagnose black lung... If there aren't act doctors who can diagnose it, then they won't have to pay for treatment https://www.npr.org/2018/03/31/598484688/kentucky-lawmakers-limit-black-lung-claims-reviews-despite-epidemic
blaghart
Correction, Kentucky lawmakers passed a sweeping reform bill that is aimed at breaking unions and destroying workers rights, not regulating what CORPORATIONS can do
amundost
So it's still bad, just different? So in stead of regulating corporations, they want to take away peoples rights?