Steer Clear of This Mob Mentality
Joel Salatin|August 29, 2023
The Radium Girls were hired by the U.S. Radium Corporation in 1914 to paint instrument dials with radium.
Discovered by Marie Curie in 1898, radium quickly became the darling of the world.
It seemed to defy the laws of physics by giving off energy without depletion. The silvery white metal found its way into countless products within a decade. Foods, cosmetics, medical prescriptions – the world was infatuated with this wonder product.
Tea with radium in it, marketed as “liquid sunshine,” promised curative wonders.
Dials that could glow in the dark offered pilots and military personnel the ability to see instruments and watches at night.
Painting the dials’ tiny components required small hands and a meticulous touch. The Radium Girls, some as young as 14, performed this painstaking work. They had to lick the paintbrushes between each stroke to keep them in shape.
The girls painted their teeth with radium to attract boys in dark dance halls. In less than a decade, however, they began experiencing excruciating, debilitating health issues. They developed tumors. Their teeth fell out. One girl’s jaw fell out of her mouth. Many died.
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Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bioterrorist, Typhoid Mary, a charlatan, and a starvation advocate. With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 12 published books, and a thriving multigenerational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world.
