A Pure Food Father and His Poison Squad

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In the late 1800s, no one really monitored food additives. After Congress refused to regulate food safety, Harvey Wiley had groups of healthy men ingest poisons for six months. Tune in to learn how these "Poison Squads" shed new light on Wiley's cause.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HouseofWorks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.2	I'm DeBlena Chalka Warding, and I'm Therad Audi.
0:46.7	And when you walk into the grocery store these days,
0:48.7	there's a lot of things to kind of worry about, I guess.
0:51.7	I mean, should you buy organic, should you buy foods that are grass fed,
0:55.7	cage free, is what you're looking at locally grown.
0:59.7	Just to name a few problems you might face.
1:02.7	Well, because there's pretty serious health-related food concerns too,
1:05.7	like mercury levels and fish and bacterial contamination.
1:09.7	You know, there was that news recently that half of all the meat sold in the United States
1:14.7	is tainted with drug-resistant staff.
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