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I haven't gone wildly off topic for yonks now. [Cries of "Oh yes you have."] Anyway, regardless of that, a horse walks into a pub and the barman says "Sorry, we don't serve food."
So, is food adulteration merely a cause for humour? I take it as given that it is a topic for humour in the first place because everything is. As Aristotle once said 'Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.'. Anyway, the answer to the rhetorical question is no, absolutely not.
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Instead it is yet another chance to stand up and say that once again Karl Marx was right about something. In a footnote to Chapter 6 of Das Kapital Volume 1 he classifies bakers in to 'full-price' and 'undersellers', the latter - the majority - adulterating their flour in all manner of ways. The explanations that he quotes as to why people are forced to buy this cheap, unnutricious food are still as valid now as they were then.
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