Re:Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desex...
by bilegeek on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:32PM
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> ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago
They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's.
From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.
They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley
[2]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-...
From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.