Posted on 02/22/2012 7:18:04 AM PST by iowamark
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.
Sort of like the INS agents in Coneheads.
“If they ARE aliens, wouldn't that be under NASA?”
“If they are just visiting, but they moment they try to WORK HERE - they are MINE!”
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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.
Same here, on all counts. The actual risk from raw milk is low, and it is a parent's place to decide whether that is acceptable for the parent or for their children, not some government bureaucrat's place.
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.
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.
You might want to consider the difference between anecdotal evidence, which is what your story is, and statistical evidence, which is what the CDC produced.
You don’t have to believe it or accept it, but your personal experience tells us very little about what others can expect.
The “150 times” number may be somewhat misleading. It is likely disease caused by raw milk is very rare, while that caused by pasteurized milk is pretty much non-existent. That means you can have such a differential while the raw milk is still not really much of a risk.
I, too, grew up on the raw milk that my Dad brought in nightly from the barn.
However, we know more now about pathogens than we did then.
After a particularly frightening outbreak of brucellosis in our area, my parents bought a pasteurizer. Milk tasted the same.
You have a right to drink raw milk or even eat raw eggs and meat if you like. But applying knowledge and common sense is more likely to keep you well.
Most states require dairies to be certifies in order to sell raw milk.
Pasteurization was developed and mandated for very good reasons.
Kids aren’t supposed to use tobacco, but they are expected to consume milk.
Me too, CDC and FDA know how to present stats to show the results they wnat them to show. I would also like to see a comparison of raw milk related illnesses with overall food borne illnesses, which I imagine would show that “regulated” foods are responsible for the majority of food related illnesses.
I have also read how some food borne illnesses are tracked and the assumption is that if a person consumed any raw milk products that product must be responsible even if no pathogens have been directly traced to that source.
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’?
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