HOLY COW! Another Case Of Nanny State Syndrome!
By Roger Allan Posted in Culture — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Some of us in this world enjoy milk. But we don't necessarily like the milk that you buy in the store. We like the milk that comes right out of the cow BEFORE it goes to a dairy to be "processed". It's called "raw" milk and up here where I live it's pretty easy to get with all the dairy farms we have. Many can and do argue that raw milk is much better for you. There is actually evidence mounting that processed milk causes clogged arteries.
Well one farmer, Mark Nolt, in Mt. Holly, PA not only sells raw milk but uses it to make butter and cheese. SIGN ME UP! The problem is he had a license to sell raw milk, but not the butter and cheese. That's when the feds had what my son calls a "hissy fit".
So what did the Feds do? What they have now become famous for doing. They raided the Mennonite Dairy, handcuffed the farmer and confiscated $30,000 dollars worth of his milk. They didn't write a letter, they didn't talk to him about it, they raided him.
Keep in mind that Mr. Nolt's customers are FULLY AWARE that they are buying raw milk. They prefer it that way. I prefer it that way. We have a choice to buy it or not to buy it. We know the "risks" and we also know the benefits, the benefits that the government refuses to recognize.
You know I have been asking a lot of questions lately. Autism and food allergies are getting to be at epidemic proportions. Do you think maybe, just maybe, the processing that we have been doing to natural foods to "protect us" could actually be harming us? Is it possible that raw milk and raw fruit juices may have some benefits that we just don't know about yet and that we lose those benefits when we "process" them? I mean what do young children drink a lot of? Answer: Milk and Juice. Is it possible that their is a Great Designer and by messing with his design by "processing" milk and juice we are messing with that design and that is what is messing us up?
The Nanny state continues. You better watch out what you eat and don't eat! You better make sure what you eat or drink is approved by the Government! The choice is not yours anymore. It won't be long and CPS will be at the door for giving your kids Twinkies!
They know so much better than we do and they are here to save us from ourselves. Right?
By the way, here is your source:
They died a lot younger. Way more children died.
Mortality rates were higher.
but for a lot of reasons... not generally due to unprocessed milk. the two aren't necessarily connected.
or he'll be foaming at the mouth.
Who came up with practical solutions to real problems. What would have bothered him more than anything would have been the misuse of his work.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
And he may have gotten the rabies joke that went over your head.
Of course in his day it was easier to laugh off the government involving itself in your life.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
The farmer and the Fed
The farmer and the Fed
Who runs the Dairy?
Oh the farmer or the Fed?
The farmer takes a wife
The farmer takes a wife
Oops, one too many
Oh the farmer takes a wife.
The State takes her kids
The State takes her kids
Can't share your husband
Or the State will take your kids.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
how to spell "poem". This is a pome.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
My sister in law and her husband have a grass based, jersey cow dairy but they aren't licensed to sell raw milk, so I have to take my jars to their house and get it out of the big tank.
The milk is quite safe, regardless of what the government says. Back in the day that there were issues with raw milk, the farmers were feeding leftover products from liquor production to the cows. So what does our gov't do (in all its wisdom)? Make us all cook the milk, not change the cattle feed.
My raw milk is practically pathogen free. I can leave it for 2-3 weeks in the fridge without it going blinky. That is safe milk.
It is ridiculous that it is illegal for them to sell it, when they could take the manure from the barn, shovel it on the lettuce and sell the lettuce off a roadside stand with no legality issues.
We are governed by idiots.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
Didn't someone say at one time that we get the best government that money can buy? (or something like that)
omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina
in the production of cheese in Europe makes for better tasting cheese. I spent four years over there and didn't hear of many cases of 'cheese poisoning'! I lived across the street from a small dairy farm (thirty cows) when I was a kid! The milk did taste better (higher butterfat content!) and it did separate but we never got sick from it that I know of. If we did we probably developed antibodies.
Having spent time in the barn, it would seem that modern dairy practices, such as washing the udder prior to milking, eliminates many of the contamination problems addressed by Pasteur's solution. The source of the contamination is usually not from what's inside the cow but from outside the cow factors.
Say 'Cheeeeese'!
without processed milk and the governmnet telling them how to do it?
It gets to where logic doesn't even come into it. Makes you want to find the nearest FDA guy and pop him in the mouth.