Upton Sinclair wrote an expose on how manipulated American factory workers were and how socialism was the answer. And everyone’s takeaway was just, “ew they’re putting rats in our food”. Which, yeah that sucks, but is kinda missing the bigger picture.
Anyway, whenever I see issues with the FDA being underfunded I think about some of the imagery in that book and cringe
Yeah, I put off reading it for a long time because "my social studies book said it was about food safety, and food safety is reasonably solid now. And it's sooo long, why bother". But I finally got around to it a few years back and wish I had read it much sooner, at least before I was solidly socialist to speed that process up a bit.
But now I rage just a bit harder whenever someone suggests that we need less regulation, or that immigrants shouldn't be given any legal protection, or that capitalism is not an inherently destructive, dehumanizing force. That is to say, highly recommended
Having read it prior to becoming a communist, highly recommend