On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 08:36:35PM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > Bro, stuff was unregulated in the US before the late 1800s. And people > were being poisoned. That's why the FDA was created.
This again is that false dichotomy, or that funky new phrase Steve Kinney pointed out above somewhere. So unscrupulous people did unscrupulous things with food. Potentially jail, potentially very large public compensation. So instead of appropriate remedies like jail and large monetary payouts, what happened? Oh, that's right, a new federal government body was created in North America called the Food and Drug Administration. Because, you know, the unscrupulous people just made a few mistakes and regulation at least makes it look like they might be held to account (haha) or at least stopped from doing wrong^B^Bmaking such mistakes (like getting caught) in the future. Because they had money and power, i.e. money and connections to people in government, and govt protection was created in the form of the FDA. > >>> Or counsumers could use some 'due diligence' > >> > >> Do you know how to test your sugar for lead, Juan? Or your dried milk > >> for melamine? Or your ethanol for methanol? > > > > I can look that up. And I do happen to have some sort of lab > > laying around, go figure. > > Ha ha. I could too. But most people could not. I know, I know! Here's how we do this. We will sack the FDA, and employ cypherpunks Mirimir and Juan to test food additives and protect us all! Thanks Mirimir, that's a real and workable anarchist solution. I knew this list would produce something positive one day :D Anyone else putting their hand up for the new FDA board? > > Also, adulterating vodka with methanol is sheer nonsense. > > Methanol is indeed a poison. It's added to ethanol to make > > 'denaturated' i.e. poisonous stuff. It would probably be better > > to adulterate it with gasoline... > > Yes, it's used for denaturation. But it's also been commonly used for > adulteration. And all of your bullshit won't change that fact. Yes, apparently gasoline is addictive - we learnt this here in Aus a decade or two back when it became quite public that native aboriginal children were sniffing themselves to death on petrol, to get high.
