Well, we didn't really outlaw it. We made it only legal under certain conditions.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." - emphasis mine

Your point still stands though

10% sawdust before people notice sounds pretty fucking high to me :/

I mean, it's not free, but yes, edible sawdust would be good for the health of most people in the western world. Though they tend to get cellulose from cheaper sources like straw or chaff.

Yeah, they're Republicans with even more brain damage and not a single one understands how societies work.

I remember thinking I was a libertarian for a few years after I realized the conservative world I was raised in was nuts.

What I had essentially done, though, was shed the bigotry first because I cared about people, while keeping the conservative/capitalist economic mindset because accumulation of assets and efficient use of capital are just what good human beings strive for in that world. I’m a Libertarian! I am pure and very intelligent!

But then that pesky thing about respecting the lives of other people never left my head. And my eyes and ears kept working while the last couple decades happened. And I unfortunately value annoyances like high quality evidence, demonstrated expertise, and the scientific method.

It didn’t take long to connect the dots that the policies that are best for short-term capital and those that are best for sentient human beings (never mind all other life) may not always align, and that choosing the former over the latter is kinda… what’s the word… evil.

I love how they insist it's not sawdust - since they don't literally use the byproduct of lumber milling, like the shit they sweep up from the floor. But it's still wood turned into a powder, which the term "sawdust" is perfectly valid for.

It's crazy to me that they try to sell that shit as anti-caking because any time I've ever tried to use that garbage it's always caked anyway.

Now to be fair, freeze dried bacon bits in general tastes worse than animal feed. So if you ground it up and covered it in the anti-clumping agents, it is basically sawdust without containing any wood.

Check out what cheap pepper is made of some time.

Jesus

I didn't learn until well into adulthood that food safety wasn't actually the message Upton Sinclair was trying to get across.

This was early 2000s.