"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Butter Battle
Submitted by Jad Davis on Mon, 2011-10-03 00:00
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Another reminder that it was always thus: ". . . in 1886, the American dairy lobby warned that the margarine menace would rob the red-blooded American public of 'life promoting vitamins…without which human infants cannot continue to live.'Congress was thus persuaded to pass the Margarine Act of 1886."
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