Not content with its bizarre effort to eradicate raw milk,
the FDA is now focusing its resources on raw milk cheese. The whole effort is bizarre. As Harper's Index notes:
Number of Americans who have died since 1998 from drinking unpasturized milk: 2
Estimated number of U.S. children hospitalized last year after hurting themselves on monkey bars, swings, or slides: 173,000
You can't ediricate risk and if people want to enjoy unpasteurized milk or the swings, they should be able to do so without worrying about the government. Of course, the big milk companies are the ones with the money and thus are the ones writing the laws and directing the FDA's agenda. As David Gumpert notes:
The FDA has never been known to take such niceties as consumer taste and nutritional preferences into account in its approaches to such matters, though.
1 comment:
As an employee of Dairylea (largest Mike Producing co-op in New England) I can say that it is not entities like Dairylea that keep these laws in practice. In fact it would be EASIER if the industry could distribute unpasturized milk. In my opinion, given the milk industry, the government is sticking it's head into places where it doesn't belong making it hard to produce and distribute milk to willing consumers like you and I. Government interference is needed in some cases but not all, but who am I to complain, all these rules keep me employed!
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