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In general, would more lives have been saved if the FDA did or did not exist?

Did exist
59.2%
No opinion
24.3%
Did not exist
16.5%

823 votesFinal results

4:23 AM · Dec 12, 2018

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Some idiots think eating rare chicken is ok

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I was under the impression "The Jungle" settled this question.

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Would something be allowed to exist in its place? A state-level or a market version of regulation agencies perhaps?

@RichardEllipsis

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I love that the FDAs first incarnation was made at least in part as a result of the public reading "the jungle" by Upton Sinclair, a book about the meat industry in 1890's Chicago

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The FDA stops corporations from outright poisoning people so...