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188 Food Safety v. Dangerous Food - The Fight for Food Labeling in the 19th Century
Season 6
Published 1 day, 10 hours ago
Description
Do your own research is quite the thing to say - but imagine if there were no laws... iand more importantly no regulations around what you could say about what was in in your food, or what your medicine does.
All the research in the world would do you no good if anyone could say anything - and there were no repercutuions for simply making things up. This was the landscape in the 19th century, and from it grew our first laws on food purity and food and drug safety. They were vague, hard to enforce and full of holes, but for the first time there were consequences for selling strawberry jam with no strawberries, or selling milk that literally killed children.
It's a never ending fight... but a good one. Hear all about it.
Books: (CHeck your local library - that's where I got my copies!)
The Poison Squad
Feed the People
The Jungle Check out this cool Graphic Novel!
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Substack: https://thoafood.substack.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
& some other socials... @THoAFood
All the research in the world would do you no good if anyone could say anything - and there were no repercutuions for simply making things up. This was the landscape in the 19th century, and from it grew our first laws on food purity and food and drug safety. They were vague, hard to enforce and full of holes, but for the first time there were consequences for selling strawberry jam with no strawberries, or selling milk that literally killed children.
It's a never ending fight... but a good one. Hear all about it.
Books: (CHeck your local library - that's where I got my copies!)
The Poison Squad
Feed the People
The Jungle Check out this cool Graphic Novel!
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Substack: https://thoafood.substack.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
& some other socials... @THoAFood