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>Subway has become the supplier of subs at the lowest cost. What this means is that bean counters dictate what the subs contain.

Well, corporate bean counters would have sold heroin to children if it was profitable and they could get away with it.

That's the thing, though: Subway should not be able to get away with it. As long as it calls the product it sells "chicken", it should be chicken, and anything else should end with huge fines and/or closing down of the chain (e.g. with a "three strikes" type of thing).



They did!

Heroin and cocaine were popular additions in the late 19th/early 20th to medicines of questionable value.


corporate bean counters would have sold heroin to children if it was profitable and they could get away with it

They sell nicotine, which is arguably worse.


Maybe in 1987[1]?

Seriously, though, as someone who is staunchly anti-smoking, I'm interested to hear the argument as to why you think that is.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-t...


> Maybe in 1987?

(Edit: this is in reference to the grandparent post which mentions selling heroin to infants )

Nestle still does the milk formula trick at hospitals and maternity courses, where try to get babies addicted to milk formula. They even have "pre-conception courses".

http://www.nestle-baby.ca/en/preconception

Notice, the WHO breastmilk popup on that page. This was put up after the boycott-nestle campaign.

http://www.babymilkaction.org/nestlefree




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