Swill Milk

[My Good Babushka]

In the 1850s “swill milk” was a profitable sideline for distilleries. They fed waste mash and whiskey slops to cows. The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch, eggs and hued with molasses. Children showed signs of drunkenness on swill milk, and the cows were so drunk they had to be hoisted by cranes in order to be milked. It is estimated that 8000 infants died in one year from swill milk.

[rurallib]

1. OMG

[Ron Obvious]

2. Yummie!

If it wasn't for those damn no-good liberal commies who insist on regulating everything, this could have been safely left up to the market. Naturally, after a few thousands deaths, the market would have punished any purveyor of swill milk, as God intended.

[HeiressofBickworth]

3. Wow

We really appreciate the information you post, and this is another example. I have never heard of swill milk. Fascinating. And, as the poster above indicated, with better rules about food purity and better enforcement, we aren't likely to have dead babies from it. Another triumph of government!!

[baldguy]

4. By all means, lets get rid of all those pesky gubmint regulations.

They just keep a man from making an honest profit.

[HereSince1628]

5. The record clearly shows no Ebola in the US until -AFTER- those regulations

[ReverendDeuce]

6. Libertarian ideals! Let the market decide! n/t

n/t

[ReverendDeuce]

7. Let's not forget that the Tammany Hall politicians were liburl DEMS!!!1111

DEMO-RAT ENABLERS!!!11111 FROM 1858!!111

(yes, this was sarcasm)