Advocates believe the law will squash freedom of speech and opposition politics in Hong Kong, further eroding the autonomy that originally came with the “one country, two systems” formula
A 1906 illustration from Puck magazine targeting the meat industry. Illustration shows an oversized man labelled"Beef Trust," with skeleton face, performing a magic trick on a stage by taking"Diseased Livestock" and pushing them through a tube labelled"Packingtown" to produce packaged"Pure Meat Products." A diminutive man,"The Prof's Assistant," wearing a cap labelled"Inspector" is standing on the stage on the left.
At the turn of the century there existed few effective standards and little enforcement to prevent the production and distribution of unsafe foods and medications. Writer Upton Sinclair’s 1905 novelforced the issue into the spotlight. An unabashed socialist, he took a job in a Chicago stockyard for seven weeks and documented the squalid conditions under which workers toiled.
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