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- "There were pathetic advertisements from the whale oil people of that time arguing for 'pure' whale oil over 'impure' substitutes." It's the same today: peop
by perihelions 2y ago
- "There were pathetic advertisements from the whale oil people of that time arguing for 'pure' whale oil over 'impure' substitutes."
It's the same today: people pay premiums for vegetables fertilized with "pure" bird poop (guano) over equivalent phosphate rocks mined from the earth.
e.g.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/americas/30peru.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/americas/30peru.htm...