I would like to see a breakdown beyond ‘raw milk products.
What percentage of these cases were the result of ‘queso fresco’, better known as ‘bathtub cheese’.
Regardless, it still doesn’t give the national government the right to tell me what I can eat or drink.
I do not expect that the CDC will have doctored these results or bent them to fit an agenda. It's simply not their style.
THAT SAID: I still feel people should be free to select whatever food they wish to eat, even if it risks disease or death.
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I call bullcrap on this one. We drank raw milk as a kid and we all were quite healthy. We used to make our own butter from the cream we skimmed off the top and it was awesome. I tried to buy some raw milk from a dairy once and the guy looked at me like I was insane! After I explained why he proceeded to tell me about how regulated it is. And the only way to get raw milk was to own my own cow or buy into a “collective” cow. What kind of crap is that?
Guess what? Cigarettes are bad for you too. But I can buy them damn near anywhere.
Illegal immigrants more likely to cause illness than legal immigrants. I don’t see the gov’t rushing to protect us from that.
Maine Yankee is right, the product, and how it was treated, is most important.
When we were doing better financially, I was buying fresh goat milk at $6/gallon from a college kid (human, not goat) who would call me when the milk was available. It would still be warm when I drove it home and put it in the fridge.
That is a lot lower risk than that Mexican style cheese.
All food supplies must be under the control of the central government so that when the time comes to use food as a means of population control, they can just flip a switch.
Riri: Organic food much more likely to cause illness too. Doesn’t stop the trendies from buying it.
Oh no!
In a nation of 300,000,000 people, over 13 years, 239 people were hospitalized (slightly over one per month, nationwide) and 3 died.
Probably more than that died from infected hangnails.
If I put raw milk into my body I’m more likely to get sick. If a man puts another man’s penis into his body he is more likely to get AIDS. If a doctor puts a knife in a pregnant woman’s uterus the baby will die. Which of these acts is illegal?
150% of a miniscule number is still a very small number. This is a press release by a government bureaucracy that is defending it’s right to abuse our liberties by doing things like running sting operations against Amish dairy farmers.
Is this really a cost-effective use of government resources to ‘protect the public health’?
Pasteurized milk 150 times more contaminated with blood, pus and feces than fresh milk
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035039_raw_milk_pasteurized_CDC.html#ixzz1n8Gsfz1E
I don’t drink much, if any, milk. When I do, it’s usually “super pasteurized” because it lasts longer in the fridge as I use so little of it. So I don’t really have a dog in this fight.
But my primary question is: Where in the U.S. Constitution does it give the federal government the right to “regulate” or proscribe any food, drug or other products? Or create any agencies which do that?
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” — Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution