[TennesseeProfessor]

All of this government usurpation of our food arguably got started with the book "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair

This is true. Sinclair described how slaughterhouses at the time would process disease animals, put chemicals in the meat to mask the taste, and sell it as normal. Plus appalling (and deeply unhealthy) sanitary conditions. This book led to a government fact-finding mission which confirmed the meat-packing allegations were largely true. I'm pretty far over to the libertarian side of things, but I absolutely support government enforcement of truthful labels for food and basic sanitary conditions. So put me in the "reform and loosen" rather than the "abolish" camp.

[Snickering Hound]

This is true. Sinclair described how slaughterhouses at the time would process disease animals, put chemicals in the meat to mask the taste, and sell it as normal. Plus appalling (and deeply unhealthy) sanitary conditions. This book led to a government fact-finding mission which confirmed the meat-packing allegations were largely true. I'm pretty far over to the libertarian side of things, but I absolutely support government enforcement of truthful labels for food and basic sanitary conditions. So put me in the "reform and loosen" rather than the "abolish" camp.

And one of the biggest employers of illegal aliens is the meat packing industry.

Wash your chicken.