The Great Cranberry Scare of 1959
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- In 1958, traces of a pesticide were found in a batch of cranberries seventeen days before Thanksgiving. The announcement was the first of many "food scares" to face the nation. The History Guy remembers the history of U.S. food regulation and the powerful impact of the Great Cranberry Scare of 1958.
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The History Guy proving a cranberry history is more interesting than anything on network TV.
Bravo! Well said...
Bob G Sitting on the side of a bog and watching the cranberries grow. Much more interesting than the Impeachment hearings. Same thing as watching paint dry.😬🥴
While not a high bar to cross these days, I agree completely!
If only such hysteria were no longer with us today.
With the internet what's the point of television anymore?
"If we both pass away, I shall have performed a great public service." What a guy!
Good to hear the 1960s had just as much discourse in politics as today. Just worded a bit different
If he had been gifted with foresight he would have admitted that he would have done TWO public services.. :D
Nixon does have a bad rap. While he did break the law with Watergate, he did good things like create the EPA. In some aspects, he was a better President than JFK. He should have ended the Vietnam war earlier, but at least he ended it.
@@jimmym3352 The EPA has been a horrific failure. It is a tyrannical agency without oversight that protects the biggest polluters (the government) while shutting down backyard barbecues.. There is no possible world in which we would not have been better off without it.
Storm Harman you don’t have a clue about what you’re commenting on. The epa has been good for this country.
The writing here is berry, berry good. Not bogged down in saucy prose. I pemmicannot wait to see what's next. I'll show myself out now, thanks.
Don't stop what you're doing
😄👍
This reply is a real Turkey! And I don't relish having to say this.
But you're here all week.......
EPIC FAIL
I can just see the reporting on this with cigarette smoke filling the room.
Good point.
Thank God for the smoking police.
Several viewers have mentioned that there is a picture of a basket around 9:12 that is filled with red currants, not cranberries. I apologize for the error.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered : My gosh..... Who cares?
People can be so....... Foo/unmmmnn petty!
At least it was current.
FDA has a $15 billion budget!?!?
(And many of them are still on the take)
Got to error free or the masses will revolt...
CurrAnts
I remember the "Cranberry Scare". I was 14 at the time. Having been a chemist for 50 years, I am retired now, I would be willing to bet I could find a suspected carcinogen in any food. I remember one time we were analyzing corn stalks for a pesticide and we found that natural products in the stalk were more toxic than the pesticide.
Your corny story contains a kernel of truth.
Do we feed corn stalks to people? Not to my knowledge we don't. If we feed them to animals, do those naturally occurring toxins end up in the animal's flesh?
@@goodun2974 Well the whole subject of what happens to chemicals when they are ingested by a human or other animals is a very complex chemistry. Most substances are metabolized in the digestive system to something else and the liver plays a big part also. I can't really give you a definite answer.
@@jamesstaley5611 , The reason you can't give me a definitive answer is because you are a retired chemist and you never apparently really looked into the issue of the question that I posed. Which is why, with all due respect to you, it is a good idea to have currently working, non-retired chemists, pose such or similar questions and entertain hypotheses and then embark on research to prove or disprove them. "I don't know" isn't an answer; but it can spark the beginning of a quest that may end in knowledge. I will hazard a guess that your search for pesticide residues in those cornstalks may have been limited to a question of whether the pesticides would interfere with the corn taking up nutrients from the soil. Hypothesizing that you might have been engaged in this scientific research on behalf of some big agricultural company, I'd postulate that any further research into the ramifications of pesticide residue, or naturally occuring toxins, were immaterial to the subject at hand.
You could take a look at senescent cells and how they secret cancer inducing factors at late ages.
What mean we all have endogenous carcinogenics.
The cranberry colored bow tie and kerchief were a nice touch.
Just came here to see if anyone else noticed that! 😊
Wisconsin produces 64% of the cranberries harvested every year. As a Wisconsinite I pass cranberry bogs all the time. Never heard this story! Very educational.
Whenever we travel north from Madison we alway stop in Warren, WI to buy cranberries. A very Wisconsin product. We always have a bag in the freezer. You never know when you will want cranberries. I've consumed them in July. My fav jam is rhubarb and cranberry. The brand? Slack's from Wisconsin.
Yes, but the best are grown in South Jersey.
@@joshuasnore3600 LOL, I don't like cranberries so I couldn't say which are the best.
I live on a cranberry bog in Grayland, WA. My sons are cranberry farmers
Nah guys best cranberries are in MA near cape cod
"contradictory science and breathless news reports" It sounds like not much has changed, just that we've added internet trolls.
Beat me to the comment. It's 1959 all over again.
I resemble that remark!
The politicians, who are mostly lawyers, don’t understand how to formulate policy based on the common sense use of science. Nothing has changed.
And Internet content producers that produce balanced and informative content like The History Guy, while the media is running around like chicken little trying to convince people the death camps are coming if you don't vote for Bloomberg...
J Smith Just look at the weather and you will see a change - unless you are younger than 25 I suppose, because then you may think that ridiculous weather patterns are normal. Many of us can SEE what is happening, but we still find Americans who just follow what their President tweets. This is the same guy who asks 'whose boat is that?' when visiting storm wrecked areas....
"More distrust of corporate motives." But not enough distrust of government.
Cranberry sauce is best when it stands in a serving dish retaining the shape of can.
Jim's videos that’s our traditional method of serving, too
Agreed
That was my task as a kid at Thanksgiving: de-canning and slicing the cranberry gelatin
Non-can-shaped cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving is jut plain un-American!
Oh no. Homemade sauce only 😋.
Reporter: "Mr. Simpson, tell us about your thrilling career."
Abe Simpson: "I worked 42 years as night watchman at a cranberry silo."
Good catch! Let us not forget Abe's 'Walking Bird' and the ol' trick of tying an onion to his belt!
Sounds like a title for a creepypasta
@@OhMySack - "Which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, on account of the war. Now where was I?"
@@jamespfitz - "Which in those days they called Morganville!"
@@deadfreightwest5956 But the important thing was he had an onion on his belt. He couldn't get white ones because of the war.....
Thank you for sharing this reminder of how little it takes for media to go off on a hysterical rant. I enjoyed the information about cranberries. I'm grabbing a handful of dried cranberries now.
Reminds me of the “Red Dye #2” scare, and the one about a shampoo that was force fed to rats in such amounts that a person would have to drink dozens of bottles of it a day to get an equivalent amount of the supposed carcinogen.
Once again, THG comes up with another subject that I am not that interested in but, since it is the THG that puts it out, I watch. And again I learn something new and interesting. Again when I first click on the video, I also click on the tumbs up. Always interesting. Way to go THG.
same here, thought 'no way I'm watching 15 minutes about cranberries, I don't even like cranberries'
15 minutes later, 'wow that was interesting, still don't like cranberries though' LOL
I think he should do an episode on paint, just to prove that he can make watching paint dry interesting.
Thanks for the reminder 👍
Hard and sour and bitter... that’s why she’s your “ex!”
"Watch" Paint dry! "OR" Watch GRASS Grow!
One of my favourite sandwiches is smoked bacon, brie and cranberry sauce. Now, fond as I am of this sandwich, I have a feeling I am never going to eat enough for of them for the cranberry sauce to be a problem.
And the bacon?🤣🤣🤣
What kind of bread?
That sandwich does sound quite interesting. I'm also curious as to what kind of bread you use...
That sandwich sounds amazing! I'm going to go get some Brie cheese and try it right now!
All bacon is smoked, otherwise it is just plain salt pork or fresh pork belly.
As a Beekeeper, I use time tested example of 'if it hurts my Bees it's no good for me!' as my 'touchstone' of whether something is good or bad for you. Since I have been a beekeeper, I have not been sick once.
We have bees as well. We have trouble losing hives in the winter. We lost 2 hives last year.
I dunno, my varoa mite dipping sauce is pretty good. Bees just need to toughen up.
Had you perceived you underrated yourself from a person to the level of mere insects?
And what about bees poison? Is it good for you?
By the way, I'm starting on beekeeping as well. But without any chemophobia.
"People were bombarded with contradictory science and breathless news reports." Just like today.
Just like global warming.
Not much has changed.
Science is seldom the problem. It is the weaponisation of science by media, politicians and corporates that is the problem.
@@gebali
Using science in a manner other than exactly what it is is called religion, and that's exactly what global warming has been turned into, the next religion, like any religion it's all fear and guilt, fear and guilt, and just like each religion it has it's own "official scientists", and just like a religion if you don't accept the findings of their official scientists you're declared blasphemous.
In 1990 I was dating a girl whose oldest sister is a college professor, in the 80's her department got the grant from the federal government to get to the bottom of the issue of whether or not acid rain was harmful to plant life on the North American continent, they ran a program where they had plots of land sectioned off and would go around to them regularly to check plant and insect life along with rain samples in these control areas, after several years of study they concluded that acid rain only affected one particular type of plant that only grew above a certain altitude which rarely saw acid rain anyways.
Any one old enough will remember that in the 80's acid rain was the thing that was going to end life on the planet but all of a sudden around 1990 the subject just kind of went away, that's because the scientists came to conclusions.
As a footnote at the end of her telling us about her research department's work and findings she mentioned with a slight chuckle that some of her colleagues are angry with her because she came to conclusions about acid rain and then the research money dried up. Throughout the years since the acid rain scare went away I've watched the "researchers" use their same doomsday scare techniques to get the global warming thing to gain traction and they finally have flung a ball of crap that stuck to the wall, since I've been alive the list of things that were going to end it all have been;
Next ice age (1970's)
Killer Bee's (late 70'-early 80's)
Acid rain (80's)
Ozone layer depletion (90's)
Yep they finally flung a ball of crap with global warming that's stick to the wall, over the years everytime I've heard the researchers say "We need more funding for research" I think about my girlfriends sister mentioning that her colleagues were upset about how her coming to conclusions dried up the money for those research labs, that's probably why I just won't fall for the doomsday BS from them, in my 54 years on this planet they've already killed me off so many times that none of us shouldn't even be here, it's all about the 2.5 billion dollars that the federal government hands out for global warming research.
Steve Gee “scientific studies” are often paid for by large corporations and conveniently always get results in their favor. 🤔
I never skip any episodes of The History Guy. Repeated examples have demonstrated that no matter how seemingly uninteresting I may initially find the subject matter I am certain to be both entertained and informed with out fail. The History Guy has no peers.
I was 14 during the great cranberry scare. In Massachusetts, where I grew up the word was out, it was a small number of west coast cranberries not in Ocean Spray products, but the that season I still remember we would ask for another helping of cancer, and enjoyed our cranberries as we always did. I've thought about the scare many times over the years, and was pleased to watch your excellent report. Just a few years later, in Vietnam, I was exposed to agent orange, which we were told was harmless... Four of us went to Vietnam together, we all survived the war, but I am the survivor, they all died of agent orange exposure... and I am a cancer survivor. But the VA denies agent orange benefits.
I remember when it happened, I was nine. No cranberries at Thanksgiving. It's funny that you want something much more, when you can't get it.
I have been trying to remember the details of the cranberry scare which occurred shortly after I graduated from high school. I was quite fond of cranberry sauce and was devastated by not having any more for the holidays. Many thanks for your talk on this topic. It certainly contains lessons worth remembering in a day when knee-jerk reactions to rumors and news seem to be the order of the day.
Interesting how the Delaney act was appealed in the 90's and then the group Cranberries came out.
@Greg Moonen Gotcha! Thanks for sharing what you know. I didn't know about until the 90's. I guess either way the 90's was a win for the Cranberries!
It's in my head!! In my head!! Zombie zombie zombie
Illuminati confirmed?
@@djdemondude6593 That was a good one!
@@RhettyforHistory It really was a good song.
One of the most captivating channels on RUclips. Not a single episode is anything short of fascinating. I recommend you to everyone I know who enjoys historical trivia and content. Keep it up sir!
No cranberries were harmed during the recording of this video.
hahaha would be funny if the History Guy took a bite at the end 🤣🤣🤣
This was a berry good story HG, and it won't sour me from watching your future episodes!
Ohhhhh no
That was an awfully tart reply!
juicy and saucy future episodes.
Can you berry kindly cran some more puns into your comments?
Delaney forgot that the "dose makes the poison" .
As all chemophobics
Truth!
That bow tie is fantastic
Awesome history channel. It kills me a little that you beat us to covering the great cranberry scare. XD
How about the red food coloring scare? I remember as a kid the first time there were red M&Ms.
Red dye #6 ?
TheC4FourHundred -Red dye #4, I believe is the dye your speaking of. It eventually was outlawed all together from being used in foods & cosmetics that humans or animals were to either consume or have contact with. I think it was used to color hotdogs at the time?? Not sure. Loved me some #4!
@@Pfsif Red Dye #2, aka Amaranth, was found to cause cancer in rats. Red M&Ms never used that dye, they used #40, but Mars decided to pull the color to avoid confusion. Red M&Ms were reintroduced once they deemed sufficient time had passed.
Many red dyed food items are dyed with carmine from the cochineal insect and the main risk is from an allergic reaction causing anaphylactic shock. Naturally derived dyes like this and annatto don't get a listing number as they are exempt.
Red dye #3 has fallen out of favor and been replaced by #40 partially because the high amount of iodine in it sensitizes the thyroid and causes concern about possible non-cancerous tumorigenesis.
Two other red dyes, including #4, have been delisted as well. Red dye #32 is actually orange in dilution and was found to actually be toxic and delisted in the early 1950s. This is particularly bad because it is used to dye fat-soluble stuff and so can accumulate in the body. Don't eat red or orange candles.
@@Markle2k Don't you use E-numbers? You can hate Europe (like the Brits) but in Europe you know exactly what you eat. You can read it on the packaging. I dare you Americans to introduce those laws, too. But I guess your powerful food industry hasn't got the balls to be honest.
@@voornaam3191 What are you talking about? Ingredients are listed on the packaging of food I buy in the U.S.
There is NO way I can listen to this without it reminding me of the HILARIOUS Bob & Ray sketch, with the interview of a cranberry farmer.
I highly recommend anyone, unfamiliar with the routine, to Google it/listen to it.
I was 12 that year, living/working on a busy 10 Section farm in a then rural part of western Washington. That news, via the "farm network" swept through the area like wild fire - it's all the grown ups talked about "...what will the government declare unsafe next? As berry farmers, our crops could be it." Looking back I now can see how fast "regular" people can go stupid when they feel stressed. Another great memory flogger - you are GOOD.
Thank you for sharing...
If it's not screwed up, the government hasn't tried to fix it yet.
Yeah, life would be so much better without the fda..
@Greg Moonen how are you being a sarcastic? thats actually a legitimate argument,whos going to continue buying something thats killing people.. and its not like the fda is exactly doing a great job at stopping dangerous pharmaceuticals from hitting the market anyhow
Yours is completely invalid 'through the looking glass' thinking, propaganda straight from amoral corporations. You want lead in gasoline or DDT & dioxin in our food & water? It's better to err on the side of caution, especially when feeding rapidly-growing, fragile children. Look to poorly-regulated, corrupt China with deadly toothpaste & infant formula powder, disgusting 'gutter oil', fake plastic 'eggs', toxic farmed seafood, etc. before you spout your 'libertarian' hogwash. We have regulatory agencies in place for very _valid_ reasons. Pesticides, fungicides and herbicides are inherently hazardous substances. As in, -cide, from Latin _-cida,_ 'cutter, killer, slayer'.
Looks like I stirred up the freeloaders on the government dole.
@@AJ-ln4sm Supurb counter-argument -- the morally- and intellectually-bankrupt corporate stooge segment has triumphed! P.S. I'm going to work on a later shift today, you douchebag.
Amazing we've lived so long! Actually we live in a world with starkly lower poverty rates, much longer expected life spans, and lower hunger world wide. Due in large part to agricultural advancements including chemicals and techniques. It's amazing that we feed 7 billion people!
Great video, thanks history guy & family.
Happy holidays to you and all of yours.🎄⛄
Glenn thank you for recognizing modern agriculture's contributions to a better society. As an "Agvocate" and member of an agricultural group I watch ag, (American or otherwise), villified every single day when in reality it has come so far to feed so many with so much less.
Thank you, History Guy, for once again highlighting the ineptitude of any federal bureaucracy and why we need to rid our selves of these plagues upon humanity.
That's not entirely fair .The FDA was created for a reason.
In another life, I remember the cranberry scare of 1959, but until I listened to your post, I’d forgotten it.
Several lives later, I was working in a Ukrainian part of Canada and regularly ate at a Ukrainian café. They had cranberry tarts on the menu so I ordered one. It was good and I asked them where they got the cranberries. They said from the banks of a local creek. I assured them that was nothing like our cranberries as ours grew in water-filled bogs and not on dry land. It’s the only way I’d ever seen them in advertisements. Much later I found out they are grown on dry land, but the fields are flooded to make harvesting easier. Live and learn.
Thank you so much for the reminder.
Where else are you going to get history served up to you like this. Great job History Guy, keep up the good work :)
Please do a full episode on the 1937 Sulfanilamide diaster!
@Medicinehat Pinto Dahl , If not for the government having banned DDT we probably wouldn't have any bald eagles left, they would be extinct or very nearly so. Our national bird! Ditto for ospreys and other large raptors.
Lance, a zillion of us are supportive. Keep going just as you like!
This historical event makes me recall that the cranberry industry has always included wimsy and humor in their advertising. This makes their product harmless and delicious!
Twenty years ago we had to live in New Jersey for over three years. Nobody had any negative comments about the cranberry industry when we were local to that industry. And that's pretty good for Joisey people!
Born 1949, Halifax MA, cranberry country. My first job ever was mucking ditches. I remember the scare and that my parents were adamant that berries were safe to eat. But through the years, and urban sprawl, most bogs north of Carver and Cape Cod have been abandoned and left to go wild. Yet even through the good times of the 70s and 80s bog growers ne er forgot 1959. Great video! Thanks
I was nine years old at the time, I remember it was of no concern to my mom.
This channel is fantastic!
I remember this. My mother always made Cranberry Nut Bread, a family favorite, at Christmas. Loaves and loaves of it. She would even give it away as Christmas presents. It was quite an outstanding delicacy. Not that year, though! Rest in Peace, Mom!
I am old enough to remember the cranberry scare of ‘59. I really enjoyed your walk down “memory lane”!!!
An interesting and informative episode even if there were no pirates involved.
I beg your pardon, but those folks profiting on the fear of the people are worst than pirates
Bog pirates.
It tickles me to see you at the end of the Tank Museum's video time and time again since your visit. You must have made as big a splash across the pond as you do here.
We had a great time there, and the people at that museum are simply awesome!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel As I didn't know about them while serving overseas in Germany and thus missed that chance, I don't know I'll get a chance to visit Bovington. It was great to tag along virtually. They put on a spectacular show with tank chats series. That leads me to a topic. I feel so much like Howard Hughes these days being able to choose what I watch on the regular if you're catching my drift...
This episode contains Partisan renarks....yet the History Guy remains. Just history, just information, and just educational.
That's why we all love him.
Dont you ever change. For us.
I just watched a video about cranberries at 5am while drunk and very tired... The History Guy can literally make anything interesting!
I remember when my relatives used to speak of this, when I was very young, & were in the midst of cranberry harvest.
I like your aptly selected bow tie for this topic!
I want to thank you, as the "guy who likes old stuff" in my circle of friends I get to be the one who tells stories about history to my friends. Finally having someone more educated than me pronounce Sulfanilamide is a wonderful thing. You don't want to know how many times I've told the story about it, and never with a good grasp of Any reasonable way to properly pronounce that word. >.< Thank you, sir. Also, I found this episode to be both fun and informative, but all your videos are That, so it gets second billing.
The parallels to recent events are hard to ignore.
Why on earth would anyone dislike 👎 this little history lesson?
...or any fact based, brain feeding, morsel of history for that matter....they must be flat-earthers who spend all day in their parents basement watching cat videos by day, and stocking Walmart shelves by night...🐈
Oh come on now! Anybody who spends any amount of time with a cat KNOWS the Earth is not flat... if it was, cats would have pushed everything on Earth off the edge by now !!! Ok, I'll let myself out, now. Sorry, Mark.
@@waynevreeland3141 😂
It would be nice to do a video about the introduction of Fluoride into the drinking water. For many years myself and my medical colleagues have held the theory that this process is what lead to a sudden spike in diabetes around the world. The reason being that fluoride is actually toxic to the pancreas. Thank you.
Sure, it's the fluoride that's responsible of the spike in diabetes, not the alarming obesity epidemic.
Ashley Hathaway yes, obesity is a factor. But it is not the only factor. We are also seeing a spike in people with no family history of DM who are not obese also developing DM. Take a look at the rise of DM in other countries where obesity and fast food is not present in large numbers we see in the US but yet we see a spike in DM diagnosis there as well.
There are multiple factors that can cause the disease from genetics, to trauma, to poor eating habits, but let’s not ignore the environmental factors as well. The effects of fluoride on the pancreas and other organs is well documented.
Cities and states routinely monitor water systems for heavy metal and other mineral levels. Yet they are not checked for fluoride levels. I am not saying that it is the only cause but I am suggesting that it can be the cause in some cases where other factors such as family history, obesity, and poor eating habits are not present.
My Grandmother was a big advocate of "everything in moderation"... perhaps influenced by the FDA? In any event, cranberry sauce is an important part of our holiday traditions! Thank you for posting this fascinating snippet of history, and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
It's amusing to note that the state that produces the majority of cranberries, 62 percent per 2017 study, is Wisconsin. It was not mentioned *at all* in the video.
Also, especially in the last part of the segment shows how an industry, particularly in agriculture, markets it's products in a singular & specific way. Essentially it is a monoculture, or specific one use product. (The same can be said for countries; oil only producing, coffee only, banana only, etc.) Once cranberries were found to be used for more than "cranberry sauce" i.e. cranberry cocktail, dries cranberries, etc., the product not only survived, but thrived!
Another great video History Guy! Thank You!!!
You are the BEST! I love hearing your history! But another good part is the comments, as people get on their soap boxes and really get wound up. Some make a lot of sense others are down right funny.
David Schonhardt, any Internet video having to do with possible government overreach and/or media scare tactics that well papers invites all the people who hate the government and believe all news is fake to put their own thoughts into the comment field: to wit, "government bad", "news is fake". "Take that, you big-government liberals"!. No further thought or parsing of details is required. Conflicting or opposing information is summarily ignored.
Who thumbed down the cranberry story?
I was in school in the early 60s, we were told to read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. There's been many changes in the foods industry, in my lifetime.
I love Upton Sinclair’s books. The Jungle is eye-opening.
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I vividly remember the 1959 Cranberry scare!!! I was 10 years old and I thought every kid in America was given a wonderful early Christmas gift!!! Cranberries were bitter, and, if not prepared with enough sugar were really awful tasting!!! Thank goodness I learned how to cook them!!! I love them today❣️❣️❣️
Very interesting! I feel somewhat smarter than I was a while ago! Thanks History Guy.
Anyone getting Popeye's Chicken Sandwiches should use cranberry sauce. It makes it totally different and better. Or even candied yams. And you don't have to the munchies to enjoy it. But it doesn't hurt!
Wow great tip & from a funny name too.
Constipated, if you add salads & fruit and decrease Chicken sandwiches by 50% you won't be, LOL
Sounds good. I always ask for extra pickles.
@@billrentz I promise you save some cranberry sauce or candied yams. Use a lot of mayonnaise or Miracle Whip
The more pressing problem is dealing with the idiots knifing each other or fighting over a chicken sandwich.
I've noticed lately that some of my friends in New Orleans are putting honey on their fried chicken.
I used to be a nurse. I really enjoyed this particular article. Thanks.
Kudos for the cranberry colored bow tire.
When I was younger I believed all the cancer scares that this, that or the other will kill ya. Then a few years later its reported, "not so much" then ok again. I began to ignore all these scares and still do. Moderation in all things is my motto.
@Stephen Murphy Weird kind of sarcasm. It sounds exactly like the reassuring stories.
@Stephen Murphy "From the wonderful people who brought us NAPALM !!" "Better living thru chemistry".
Edward R. Squibb started the process of regulating the quality of medicine after the Civil War. You might look into that as well.
This is why I love youtube. excellent content about things I never knew.
Grew up in Massachusetts not too far from cranberry bogs!!! Growing up at holidays my mother would make homemade cranberry sauce. She would boil and add sugar.
This story has a close parallel in the near-destruction of tha apple industry with Alar, a growth regulating chemical that was used sparingly by limited growers to provide uniform color at harvest.
Our increasing ability to measure minute quantities certainly promotes the investigation of our effect on the environment.
Although a variety of chemicals have been used for quite a while, the post WWII era and subsequent evolution of the mass production of a variety of crops have brought chemicals into mainstream concern.
While the obvious concern is that of immediate health threat, the more insidious is the long-term effects of exposure to tiny amounts. Those effects may not show up for many generations, far too late for prevention.
I happen to live in Wisconsin very near the nation's most productive area of cranberry production, so the specifics of this well-researched story are interesting.
At the same time, the premise can be extended to almost all of 'agriculture'.
Every single substance in the universe, whether natural or artificial, will harm any living organism if you force feed enough of it.
I was just a 9 year old then but I remember this, when my Mom could not find any cranberries.
I love cranberry sauce and cranberry juice. The juice is a great tonic for urinary tract infections. I'm a Texan and remember fondly a tour of a cranberry farm when I visited Massachusetts on a vacation. I set aside the time for the visit and don't regret it! Why is there not a cranberry ice cream?
How well I remember this. In the end, we had cranberry with our Thanksgiving turkey, and I will be 73 in 3 days.
TheHistoryGuy, how about an episode about our (The U.S.A.) all but forgotten type of government. The U.S.A. is often touted as being "democratic" or a "democracy" when we are neither. To be certain, this is NOT about partisanship or whether one party fits the type of government we have better than the other. In fact, we are a "Democratic Republic" as I understand but not like the communist countries that called themselves a "democratic republic" in an effort to make their country's government look, to outsiders, like a fair and decent government. An episode describing our true Constitutional form of government and the wholly incorrect use of the term "democracy" and the use by communist countries of the term "democratic republic" would be a great episode. I am certain that the vast majority of us will certainly know that this a nonpolitical subject but it is definitely one, as you say, that deserves to be remembered.
John Cashwell check out the big picture here on you tube it was a weekly tv show of our military reported every week back in the 50s!its amazing how different America has became after watching a couple of shows
The word democracy is used in many applications. Many years ago I read a book about democracy. It was written by a Canadian whose name and book title escapes me. In it the democracies of the world were discussed in some depth. Technical and historical democracies were compared philosophically and practically by the practitioners and others outside of these democracies. In the conclusions it became apparent that democracy was strictly in the eye of the beholder. Communists, who voted for leaders, believed they lived in a democracy. Those living under dictators believed they too had a democratic process. THG might have to have an ongoing series to discuss democracy. It saddens me looking at our system (US) today, I am uncertain if it is truly " the Republic for which it stands"
Its a "presidential republic" or simply a republic… I guess you have forgotten to say the Pledge of Allegiance🤦🏻♂️
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I can't find were it says it's a democratic republic.
The major difference between a democracy and a republic is that a republic is a form of government whereas a democracy is an ideology that helps shape how a government is run. Put another way: a republic is the system of government that allows a country to be democratic!
@@Silverado138 Sir, you just proved the point , everybody has their own point of view.
There are essentially two forms of government - Monarchies and Republics. Our Federal Republic is a Representative Democracy. Many folks will claim that because we are not a direct democracy we are not a true democracy - that is disingenuous. We are a western style Representative Democracy. The use of the term democracy is NOT wholly incorrect. That line of reasoning is used by certain folk to promote Executive Absolutism - a return to monarchy/dictatorship/tyranny. Is it imperfect? Yes. This is because of the problems of scale and the evils of men. Mobs cannot rule; tyrannies cannot stand.
Hi! We're from the government, and we're here to help you!
The most frightening sentence in the English language.
@@waynevreeland3141 indeed!
Terrifying
Why would anyone give The History Guy a thumbs down? He delivers an almost 'behind the scenes' account of historical events.
I put off watching this from my suggested list for over a week. Glad I finally watched. Very good history 👍😊
It has been a long time since I was like number 11 or so. Love your work.
Oh, so that's why my mother never bought cranberries.
Gregg Baker, my mother often bought cranberries, around Christmas time, and made a cranberry sherbert.
@@robertewalt7789 Hi. from 1959, on my mother never bought any...
Greetings from "Plimoth" Massachusetts.
A blast from the past, a moment from my childhood that was not a pleasant memory.
I remember the cranberry scare. My cub scout troop used "poison" cranberries as a prop in a skit.
Been watching the channel for about 2 years.
Your Dale video brought me here. It's good to see you get the attention you deserve.
Bring back the old intro.
'Been watching the channel for about 2 years'.................. I think that's long enough ........ your soup has gone cold
@@chrisneedham5803 dude, you're super schizo
Hi, about three weeks ago, I had a stroke.in recovery, and therapy,and rehab. I basically need to learn to walk again,but ,am listening to many of these to help my healing.. I talk way too quickly after my stroke . It’s another thing I am learningThanks very much !very much, IT helps! Here’s a tip:: maybe q story about the Honda point disaster sept. 8,1923 .? Eight destroyers ran aground,amazing pics,taken originally by the Hindenburg,who took photos of the wreck great story, I will be watching, and learning to talk more slowly! Thanks,Chris Seivard
@@cseivard Quick and positive recovery to you, sir !!
Love your cranberry tie and pocket square!
I live in New Jersey where cranberry are a big crop. Never knew about this whole situation. Once again thanks for the forgotten history lesson. Love whaylt your doing
20 people thought that this was a documentary about the band.
Gosh, are they still lingering around somewhere?
@@radon360 I want to hate you so much.
I remember that other horrible scare " BooBerry" ! That was frightening
The "dingleberry" scare.
Nice touch on the accessories. The bow tie and the pocket handkerchief ties the attire in with the story.
Absolutely fascinating.
History Guy, your shows are AWESOME !!!!
Scientists report: laboratory rats linked to cancer.
Yes, they are.
Doesn't cranberry juice (and, I suppose, all cranberry products) prevent kidney stones? I'm surprised he didn't mention that.
@@lapianissimo I don't know about stones. I knew a Lady whose Dr. prescribed it for kidney Infections because it's very acidic and Kills bacteria in the urinary tract.
Love your cranberry colored tie and hanky!!! Super good video. My dad had told me about this crisis.
I don't know how you do it; EVERY episode is educational and entertaining. You're my new History Channel, because the original couldn't be bothered to stick to its mandate. Thanks again for your hard work!
You sir, are the new Paul Harvey.
Try the podcast "The way I heard it" it is set up almost exactly like Paul Harvey's show.
@@ldowdy9828 Ya, Mike Rowe is wonderful too, but THG is every day....
FACT Brother, he is and I like it so do many others !
Paul Harvey's son often (perhaps occasionally is a better word) embellished the facts in the script to give the story a bit of "just so" zing. That's why they often line up with a certain world-view a little too perfectly.
Nowadays it seems that all I can find in the juice aisle of my grocery store is some mix of cranberry juice. The berry and cherry juices my son grew up with are no longer to be found.
Physics Bear. All the juice copany use mostly APPLE JUICE to cut more expensive juices because it's cheap. Pure grape and cranberry are most expensive. THE REALY MAINE thing to look for is what the ACTUAL JUICE CONTENT IS . IT WILL SAY ON THE BOTTLE LABEL. SOME HAVE AS LITTLE AS 15% JUICE. WHAT YOU REALY DONT WANT IS ANYTHING THAT SAYS "JUICE DRINK " ON THE LABEL . GARBAGE !
@@libertyman3729 grape juice is super cheap and like apple is used to cut other juices.
you need to go over to the hippy-food section, thats where they keep pure cranberry and cherry juice, Most people won't pay the higher price though,
@@mytech6779 , ditto for pomegranate and goji juices. The Actual content of juice is likely to be quite low, the beverage is mixed with other sweeter and less expensive juices, and added sugar.
Cranberry sauce was never just restricted to the holidays in my family. We always used to have it with Sunday pot roast too. I love the whole-berry sauce.
I was amazed years ago when I first learned how many of the ordinary foods that we experience in the United States, including cranberries, had never existed in Europe.
I remember when they banned the artificial sweetener cyclamate, which is still used in the EU.
Tbh I’ve always been scared of cranberries too
This channel stands out as having consistently excellent videos. Interesting. Informative. Well paced. Concise.
The bounce test to see if the cranberries are ripe was pretty brilliant.