If we’re guessing, my guess is that the dairy industry wanted to eliminate the costs of pasteurization to as large an extent as possible, and possibly sucked in some woo types to show off in an astroturf campaign.
I used to work kinda-sorta of with that industry and I can tell you the last thing the dairy industry wants is raw milk legalization. The dairy industry is very much a proponent of the current regulatory system, and in fact the pasteurized milk ordinance which your state probably adopts in whole is a dairy industry written document.
Well, every president gets three secret murders but if they don’t use them by the end of the term, ffft, they’re gone.
The law technically does not permit the sale of unpasteurized milk. It allows people to enter into herdsharing agreements and to receive raw milk as part of that agreement. It does not allow them to sell or distribute the milk. So technically a legislator offering other legislators glasses of raw milk would still be illegal.
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Science is good. I’m not a raw-milk guy, but there is evidence that raw dairy consumption in childhood protects against asthma and allergy. Also, a current study is exploring the widely-held idea that raw milk is more acceptable for people with lactose intolerance.
Possibly in a Nietzche sense of that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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The risk of getting sick from drinking raw milk is greater for** infants and young children**, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, such as people with cancer, an organ transplant, or HIV/AIDS, than it is for healthy school-aged children and adults. But, it is important to remember that healthy people of any age can get very sick or even die if they drink raw milk contaminated with harmful germs.
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Sarah Palin busts Ted Cruz for his “short, half-term U.S. Senate seat”.
And just like that, the nation faced an unprecedented shortage of irony meters.
Any food industry is keenly aware of the disastrous effects of bad PR. If raw milk goes to supermarkets so the Dairy industry can save a few bucks on the process all the ‘Got Milk?’ ads in the world won’t save them when rounds of people end up sick or dead.
I doubt they want this at all.
*…but boasting of his constitutional law teacher creds? (Remember America experimented with that resume before; how’d that work out for the country?) *
Pretty damn well, actually. Thanks for bringing that up, Sarah!
Whoa…and it’s really her! Checkmark and everything. I guess I just honestly couldn’t believe any actual human being could be so incredibly un-self-aware…
No, different mechanisms, presumably. The allergy benefit doesn’t come from the organisms that are the hazard in some lots of raw dairy.
Major dairy producers are definitely against raw milk, and those who advocate it are not doing so on cost and price factors.
Further discussion of this probably belongs in the dedicated thread.
After losing the election didn’t she publish a biography titled The Undefeated?
That crazy GOP chair of Travis County Texas says he’s ready for “flushing the commode on the corroded rectum of American politics.”
How do you ask?Easy, he’s going to out all the closeted republicans.
Awesome!
Indiana wants to ban abortions where there are defects in the fetus, including Downs’ Syndrome.
Furthermore, donating fetal tissue would be a felony.
Even some Indiana republicans are against this bill:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/11/3759097/indiana-abortion-republicans/
Ummm — that metaphor doesn’t make a lot of sense. “corroded rectum”? Maybe Bender has one. And who flushes a commode on a rectum?
Are his policies as well thought-out as this?
From various articles, he seems to have a strangely monomaniacal fixation on Homosexuality and anuses. I’m sure there’s nothing to it. Absolutely no chance that he’s a self-hating closeted gay man who never worked it out.
Yeah, I didn’t get it either.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Accompanied by Bible readings and constitutional fervor, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove license and training requirements for handguns carried openly.
Rep. Jeff Coody said his House Bill 3098 acknowledges rights granted by God and the U.S. Constitution. Rep. John Bennett, R-Sapulpa, backed Coody by reading a selection of Bible verses he said empowers believers to defend themselves.
$1.3 billion in debt, crumbling infrastructure, 49th in most education measurements (thanks Mississippi), but going down with guns blazing.