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Yikes, that's disgusting on so many levels, from the animal torture to the poisoning babies to the evil politician who tried to cover it up.
Tbf, I've read the wiki article and couldn't see any consequences for those doing this. It remained legal, no one was punished, they even succeeded in cleaning the image of milk so… it seems that the evil politician succeeded?
Yes, they got away with it. It remained legal for another 4 years, but the investigative journalism reached so many people that the public eventually won some laws: