FDA shuts down Morningland Dairy despite clean tests

I still don't trust them. Gotta be pasteurized or I don't drink the stuff ~ unless they'd let me keep a cow downstairs (for supplemental heating you know).

Smaller scale pasteurization equipment is available these days ~ see: http://www.lehmans.com/cgi-bin/lehmans/dyna/dynae53H8n?page_number=1

You could milk the cow right into that thing and have it pasteurizing on the spot. They'd never know!

Almost unbelievably I know people who have suffered from milk born disease.

It happened in India!

Well, you laugh, lots of stuff happens in India, but so what. Well, the so what part is that the upper classes in India benefit from the latest "stuff", just like we do, and the milk came from an approved dairy, in approved containers, delivered by approved and trained people, etc. (which may have you shaking your head since these guys approve all sorts of bad stuff ~ but let's say the system in India, for the rich, is as good as it was for people in US urban areas in the 1920s). The system in India is also extremely localized even in urban areas. Their society tolerates the phenomenon of the "urban cow". Ours doesn't. They even pave kitchen floors with cow manure.

The family involved are also originally from India. They'd never had a problem with milk so on a trip back to visit relatives, etc. they were given a present by a family well-wisher ~ a large cream cake!

I've seen pictures of it. A half hour after eating they were SICK. The final diagnosis was that they'd suffered mass multi directional expulsions because the milk had been contaminated with a germ that RARELY causes any problem at all to people in India.

BTW, none of the milk making up the cream cake had been pasteurized! There are people in India who feel that would offend Shiva (remember, Shiva and the linga and they pour milk on it).

If you want pasteurized milk you have to arrange for that yourself.

I think that gives you part of your answer ~ by drinking contaminated milk on a regular basis human beings develop resistance to the germs so they don't get sick. At the same time some babies die from this as they are weened from mother's milk to cow's milk.

That used to happen in this country.

I think you may be right concerning the date issues, and the confusion is multiplied by the fact that the Feds have undertaken several different raid operations at different locations across the country,but under the same code name, for lack of a better term : /

The worst part, in my view, is that most of these took place months ago, and the reports are only now getting out, and only because of the blogs.

Our ever vigilant media - ever vigilant in their battle to control what it is that Americans know, and when they know it : |

Well, I am fairly certain that I would not drink raw milk in India, or anywhere else for that matter, where I would not personally know the farmer, but I do understand your point that THEY knew their farmer and folks still fell ill.

Howevah....

the point of my posting was not to change the hearts and minds of anyone on the value/benefits of Raw Milk ; } but rather to shine a bright light on the fact that our government has made statements to a court of law, that in effect redefines our Constitutional freedoms and no one seemed in the least concerned. Excepting of course the plaintiffs ...
And that it seems that the only way said plaintiffs can get this information out to the American people is through the internet, Thank you Lord, for giving us AlGore, and moreso, for the Robinson brothers and FreeRepublic ; }

Take care, and
May God bless,
Tatt

Whatever the Administrator says in the way of interpreting the Constitution, or even his own regulations, must always be taken with a grain of salt by the Judiciary.

Bureaucrats will say the darndest things, and incompetent bureaucrats will, in fact, say OUTRAGEOUS things.

Doesn't mean anyone is listening ~ and in fact, may well be a case where a hack lawyer from a Chicago law firm where they usually handle minor torts and cuttings has taken the opportunity to rant for his current boss, a street thug politician with an Obama appointment.

Your rights didn't go some place else just because this administrator made certain claims in a case at law. In fact, presuming we win this election, you might want to keep all this in mind to refresh your new Congress Critter's understanding of WHY these people have to be dragged in to see their budgets cut and their personnel ceilings lowered.

All of that is probably why you aren't seeing a lot of folks up in arms.

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