Eating and Drinking Dyes.
The National Food Magazine declares that America bought 659 tons of coal-tar dyes from Germany last year, and a good many of these dyes were used to color “jams, jellies, and other painted foods we eat. America’s importation of chemicals from all nations for use in food products and patent medicines last year reached the bewildering sum of $85,000,000, or just about twice what it was ten years ago, or before the national food and drugs act went into effect. This is to say nothing of the enormous consumption of chemicals of home manufacture. American food reactionaries say making foods pure would make them more expensive. Well, our food supply to-day, generally speaking, is the most impure in the world, and it is the most expensive. Germany’s foods are the purest of any, and they are the cheapest.” This is worth considering, isn’t it?