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What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws

48 minutes | Tuesday, 13 February 2024

There was a brief period in America’s history – after people left the farm to work in the city and before the government started regulating it – when there was a total, lawless free-for-all in the food industry. Things were bad. Really, really bad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws
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