[PGR88]

Poke and Sniff - the Joe Biden story.

[frogjerk]

The muckraker Upton Sinclair was commissioned to write "The Jungle" by the leading socialist newspaper at the time, Appeal to Reason

from:https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/500504/10-things-you-should-know-about-upton-sinclairs-jungle

[ifinnegan]

This article doesn’t make much sense but he’s trying to make a good point.

[cowboyusa]

The Food and Drug Act actually favored big Business over small. The bog meat packers wanted the act, and used to to drive the smaller companies out of business. Liberal Fascism is a must read for all Free Market Jacksonian's. Too bad it's author is a neo-con jerk.

[nicollo]

Poor Upton, wanted to start a socialist revolution with his little book, but got entrenched cartels instead. He did make some coin off the novel, but proceeded to blow a good chunk of it on a failed commune in New Jersey.

Worst of all for Sinclair, Teddy Roosevelt seized the outrage from his book and started the modern corporate-kleptocracy (”When government controls business, business will control government”, NYT, 1911)

[SauronOfMordor]

Congressman Massie has been trying to pass the PRIME Act, which would allow farmers to sell meat direct to local supermarkets.