Illegal contraband
Posted on 07/14/2010 12:49:09 PM PDT by Lorianne
Foo producers? I had to grin at that ;) I love foo...
You’re living very dangerously ... ain’t it great? I am poisoning my husband with supper tonight that is totally home grown/hunted/baked. Life on the edge, huh?
I strongly believe that it is unsafe to consume unpasteurized milk products.
I believe just as strongly that it is the right of a free people to eat whatever they like, regardless of the results. If the government has a right to tell you not to eat raw milk, what about saturated fats? What about HFCS? Artificial sweeteners? The list is endless.
Either we possess our own bodies or we do not. If we don't, there is literally no end to what the government can and will do to "for" us.
Yeah, it’s a procedure/function name that many CS majors use in examples.
{Though I really meant to type ‘food.’}
And how do you tell the animal is free from these bacteria? Cows can carry many pathogens without any outward appearance of illness.
95% of all bulk milk tanks test positive for coxiella burnetii. 90% of dairy herds have at least one infected cow. You'd have to test each batch (bucket) of milk to be certain there were no pathogens present. Unless you were testing grandma's milk every time, you'd have no idea which bugs were present and which ones weren't.
RR, you got your first victim...
Rhoda, the little “/s” denotes SARCASM
“What happened to the kulaks in the ‘20s?”
Kulak (people who had assets) farmers hoarded food from the good soviets, so maximum leader Stalin had to root out that evil. Only 25 million or so starved or were executed.
Pasteurization was started in the first couple of decades of the last century. My grandfather was a microbiologist who worked with Emil Berliner [the man who invented the Victrola flat record] to get pasteurization laws in place. By the way, granddad died from TB (as did my father) from being infected through his research. There weren’t many test for the disease in cattle or people back then. I don’t know what it’s like today.
TB is coming back in hard-to-treat forms, but it is no way as wide spread [yet] as it was at the beginning of the last century. Kids died from all sorts of diseases then that are largely forgotten now thanks to modern science and public-health efforts: TB, typhoid, typhus, diphtheria, rheumatic fever, blood poisoning, polio and so on.
When we had cows, I remember straining the milk through cloth to filter out the small pieces of cow shit and other dirt. I don’t know what they do nowadays in large dairies. I guess it’s all mechanized.
Pennsylvania is having similar issues.
It’s been known for a while that some problems, like pneumonia, respond better to penicillin (a natural product) than to raw food.
And, the trade value of medicine over other things can’t be ignored. You might not use it yourself, but someone else might trade a brick of .22 ammo for nine amoxicillin pills.
“I strongly believe that it is unsafe to consume unpasteurized milk products.”
For six thousand years people drank raw milk with nothing but beneficial effects, then along comes pasteurization and makes the milk unfit for consumption, causing inflammation due to its undigestability, and all the fast killing diseases that come with it, and you think natural milk is unsafe?
Did you vote for O?
Invaders and drug traffickers shoot back. Americans don’t. >>>>>
Police/Feds much rather write traffic tickets or do these raw food raids than go after the real crooks and drug pushers out there
Thank you for the link.
I agree completely. We have to be careful to watch so-called conservatives who have our "best interests at heart" with regards to the food chain, too.
I was outraged in 2005 when Rick Santorum pushed a bill (iirc, it was called PAWS) which was approved of by the US Humane Society (the animal rights organization, not your local Humane Society) and sponsored by Dick Durbin (D) & Arlen Spector (eventual D), which would have placed the burden of fees and "compliance expenses", plus invasive home inspections and record keeping on people who raise pets (and probably small farmers). He tried to pass animal rights-related legislation at least 3 times.
Thankfully, it failed every time, as it would have federalized small breeders would have created a paperwork and record keeping nightmare. Who would want to breed animals, even a few, if it gave the federal government the right to come into your home?
His attempts had everything to do with animal "rights" and nothing to do with animal welfare. This from a so-called "conservative" who thinks he knows better than the rest of us how to do things.
They died. (by the thousands)
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