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Robert O Eagan Jr's avatar

Upton Sinclair…an eye opening read. And really, not much has changed.

andy's avatar

"Upton Sinclair aimed for the heart and hit the stomach, and the stomach has decided virtually everything since."

Appetite disorders have always been the order of the day.

Pathocracy --primary sociopathy leading the throngs of secondary socios -- is not new & finds high expression in corporations who, according to the robes of justice, are people, too.

You are what you eat eats.

Vertically & horizontally integrated industrial meat --chickens, pork, beef, turkey-- does not eat, because it is not fed, clean.

Feeding that adulterated meat to people is an appetite disorder. People that eat that ostensible meat are appetite disordered.

And the "healthcare" cartel that feeds on the downstream symptoms cataract of all the processed "food"-eating is appetite disordered.

The Meat Racket is a good read of the more things change the more changelessness persists.

https://goodreads.com/book/show/18211204-the-meat-racket

This army has always run on its stomach. But for rule-proving exceptions, outliers, the enteric brain is the executive & the executioner.

Valerie Sims's avatar

I have always wondered why so many people think The Jungle is about the danger to the food as that is a very small part of the book. Thank you for explaining it to me and doing it so well!