That's what I've been trying to tell you people. And you thought I was mad.Come to think of it, as of late, the FDA and USDA seem to be obsessed with dairy products. The crackdown on the raw milk producers is just the tip of the iceberg to this.
Thinking beyond the pure authoritarian aspects of this, I wonder if something is going on that is frightening them?
The last “milk crisis” I’m aware of was when after nuclear atmospheric tests in Russia, because of the jet stream, suddenly Strontium-90 started pouring out of the sky onto middle America, where it showed up in cow’s milk.
The US immediately pushed for the atmospheric test ban treaty with the Soviet Union.
That's what I've been trying to tell you people. And you thought I was mad.I saw the leading edge of this coming while we were still farming.
The USDA starting sending out circulars to farmers, telling us to control access to our properties more tightly. They had daydreams that terrorists were going to infiltrate the US food supply at the sources.
I told an APHIS honcho back then that this was silly in the extreme. The best way to terrorize the US food supply would simply be to import BSE and FMD from foreign countries... and then I pointed out to her that we’d already done the former from Canada - several times.
It will simply be a matter of time before FMD comes into the US - probably from South America, and it will be one of the champions of “free trade” in the agri-processing companies (think of ConAgra, Smithville, et al) pushing for faster/leaner/easier inspections at ports of entry - which is why they want to push this stuff upstream.
When, not if, FMD arrives here... you’re going to see some real crap hit the fan, fast.
If the USDA were actually concerned about this stuff, they’d get off their lazy asses and start inspecting foodstuffs being imported into the US the way the Japanese do. When the Japanese inspect foodstuffs, they really inspect them. Some of my neighbors exported timothy hay to Japan for Japanese racehorse - ie, this hay wasn’t actually in the human food chain. Didn’t matter. The Japanese inspected every container that came into the US. If they found pests in the hay that they specifically forbade in their import restrictions, they’d box the cargo container back up and ship the hay back across the Pacific to the farmer - at the farmer’s cost.
The US could learn about airport security from the Israelis and food safety from the Japanese.