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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: the essence of competition--they are but another form of the
phrase 'to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.'
A government official has stated that the nation suffers a loss of
a billion and a quarter dollars a year through adulterated foods;
which means, of course, not only materials wasted that might have
been useful outside of the human stomach, but doctors and nurses
for people who would otherwise have been well, and undertakers
for the whole human race ten or twenty years before the proper
time. Then again, consider the waste of time and energy required
to sell these things in a dozen stores, where one would do.
There are a million or two of business firms in the country,
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