Another "raw milk" incident...

[Major Nikon]

147. Please

Lots of thing follow if you accept the false premise that raw milk is inherently dangerous. Raw milk is not even close to the most dangerous food out there. All I have to do is point to packaged meat products like cold cuts, ground beef, and sausage, which manages to make thousands of people sick every year and manages to kill with good regularity. So what does the CDC and the FDA do about this? Almost nothing. When the media attention gets too great they have a crackdown, then everything goes back to the way it was.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html

So do you really think the CDC and the FDA has a bigger interest in public safety, or the safety of the agricultural industry? Consider that the FDA vehemently goes after raw milk which manages to make very few sick, yet does virtually nothing about packaged meat products. Kinda makes you go, hmmmm, especially when you consider that ridiculously simple things like pathogen testing would make the entire industry considerably safer.

Cargill is the largest privately held corporation in America. If they were a public corporation, they would be #13 on the Fortune 500. That puts them right between AT&T and JP Morgan, with no accountability to public shareholders. The dairy industry in the US is no longer the domain of smaller local dairies. Huge conglomerates control massive segments of the dairy industry. The National Milk Producers Federation is a huge lobby in DC. These people exercise tremendous influence over what you eat and drink every day.