If You Want More Local Food, Stop Criminalizing Family Farmers

[TreasonousBastard]

15. In another thread about raw milk, somebody mentioned a thousand or so...

(usually nonfatal) poisonings from raw milk, with at least as many unreported. I forget the time frame, but it is a problem-- don't forget that some little guys can be as greedy and careless as the big ones. Probably haven't heard as much about it simply because it's not as common as, say, spinach.

As to the rest of it, there has to be some balance when we're feeding 300 million people from less and less farmland. Modern American farming does give us enough food, with some left for export. Is it as wholesome as the more natural stuff our parents and grandparents grew up with? As my mother once said, "Organic? That's all we had back then."

And a lot of people died from bad food back then, too. Probably more than now.