The Jungle

ℹ️The Jungle
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By :	Aristotle Sabouni
Created :	2021-12-04

1Liner  :  A failing socialist author wrote a debunked political propaganda book, that the miseducated still think was true.

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Summary  :  While it was debunked at the time, pro-Government types used this book as an excuse to create the precursor to the FDA, which has become a boondoggle that's killed or hurt more people than it has ever helped. But it's a lot easier to convince the gullible than it ever is to de-program them.

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While the quality of food and conditions did get a bit better in the short term, most of this was in response to the consumer attention being paid, not the actual regulations.

Once an agency like that is created, it has an incentive to grow and expand well beyond it's value proposition. So they kept taxing and regulating and eventually this devolved into the FDA. Thus, while the quality of our products didn't change much (after the initial improvements), the size and scope of the government bureaucracy continued to grow and entropy, into the cluster-fuck that it is today, restricting choice and competition, doing very little additional good over far simpler inspection/rating systems, and often causing massive recalls not due to tainted products, but due to regulatory muscle flexing. (And thus we get more waste, expensive product, and less choice). But since those are hidden costs that most don't realize.

Conclusion

The Jungle was a propaganda scam, written by a kook, debunked at the time by the Neill-Reynolds Report... but it gave progressive politicians an excuse to corrupt food inspections. It has done little for food quality that wasn't being done without it. Today the agency (FDA) fails at food inspections, and delays life-saving drugs, treatments, and devices by a decade (while people die waiting), and they drive up their costs and reduce competition. Is it really worth it?

While "The Jungle" was thoroughly debunked as exaggerated propaganda, it became required reading in most schools to this day. Since the truth was always far less important to the progressives than telling the fictions they wanted to sell the gullible voters. so everything Upton wrote after that got the lavish support and accolated of the socialists and progressives, despite being factually wrong.

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🔗 External Links

• http://reason.com/archives/2015/08/01/prime-act-would-steer-meat-processing-in
• FDA