During WWI, you didn’t mess with the USDA

Published 1/14/09

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(You gotta wonder what happened in the company owner’s office in the minutes before he put up this sign.)

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AG says:

I need that. A tin version I can hang in the kitchen. I *need* that.

January 14th, 2009 at 6:13 PM

gnomic says:

But Didn’t Bush say it was OK to poison people?

Ooops – time to drink my mercury now.

(Is it over yet?)

January 16th, 2009 at 9:02 PM

Leland says:

I’m pretty sure your time line is off a bit on that sign. I’m willing to bet it is from the depression era.

January 17th, 2009 at 1:15 PM

Emily says:

Well, you’d lose.

http://preview.xrl.in/1f16

January 17th, 2009 at 3:04 PM

Leland says:

No, I don’t think so. Your link does not work.

However, I do remember enough of my history to know that grocery stores and butchers that violated any of those totalitarian Depression Era rules and regulations were forced to pay fines and display signs pledging to go along with the program, very much like the one pictured above. Either that or lose your business while spending a year or so in Jail while your case winds its way through the courts.

At least until the Supreme Court put some sanity back into the Federal Government.

January 20th, 2009 at 10:49 AM

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