March 20, 2019
K-12: Fake, like Adulterated Milk
By Bruce Deitrick Price
In the 1800s, adulterated milk was common. Milk produced by swill herds, as muckraking journalist Robert Hartley wrote in 1842, was "very thin, and of a pale bluish color," the kind nobody in their right mind would buy. So distillers added flour, starch, chalk, plaster of Paris, or anything else they could get away with to make the milk look healthy. This adulteration only increased the bacteria in milk that we today would consider undrinkable.
The common theme in adulteration is that you pay for A but they give you B. It's not what you want. Additionally, it's likely to be dangerous to your financial health, your physical health, and your mental health.
In recent decades, the adulteration of olive oil was such a scandal that 60 Minutespresented an expose. The Sicilian Mafia figured out a way to reach across the Atlantic and steal from the wealthiest Americans, people who wanted only the best virgin olive oil.
Read more:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/k12_fake_like_adulterated_milk.html#ixzz5iiAE3LZo
