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Food activists and anti-regulation libertarians are fighting for their right to drink unpasteurized milk in peace, even though illnesses connected to drinking it are rising.
A recent Washington Post article reported that public health officials have found that in over a dozen cases that drinking unpasteurized milk can lead to kidney failure, with paralysis occurring in at least two. But people who refuse to trust government regulations are so thirsty for this possibly illness-inducing raw milk that they’re selling and buying it illegally:
In states where raw milk remains banned, black and “gray” markets have emerged for enthusiasts seeking “moonshine milk” in the belief that bacteria-killing heat from pasteurization also kills powerful enzymes and eliminates other properties that can cure allergies, asthma and even autism.
Every day, thousands of gallon-sized glass jars filled with raw milk move from state to state, arriving at consumers’ front doors through co-ops, buyers clubs and from friends and relatives who sometimes pack the milk in dry ice and ship it via FedEx.
Sometimes the only jars that buyers can find are labeled, “For Pet Consumption Only.”
But it isn’t just pets who are drinking this apparently delicious illegal milk, which typically costs $12 a gallon. According to the CDC, 1 to 3 percent of Americans drink it and god damn it are they’re tired of smuggling it across state borders in mason jars!
The government is not listening to what consumers are asking for,” said Fallon Morell, whose farm is in Maryland, where raw milk sales are banned. “People are sick and tired of industrialized food.
Nonprofits such as the Farm-t0-Consumer Legal Defense Fund have been on the forefront of the raw milk legalization movement, which has gained steam ever since Amish farms were raided by undercover FDA agents over raw milk. Not to mention these raw milk protests tend to be extremely threatening:
Outraged members of Allgyer’s Grassfed On the Hill buyers club staged a protest on the Mall, drinking raw milk within view of the Capitol.
Seems effective, yeah?
So far, 40 bills have been introduced in 23 state capitals to legalize unpasteurized milk within state borders. Even though the CDC says the chance of getting sick from raw milk is 150 times greater than from pasteurized milk, many Americans are still engaging in this illegal milk trade every single day.
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The article starts with the statement “even though illnesses connected to drinking it are rising” which is unsubstantiated. Multiply times more illness results from the consumption of pasteurized milk than from raw milk. Now to be fair, consumption of raw milk is a very small percentage of the liquid milk consumed, but to date there have been NO outbreaks of disease from the consumption of raw milk.
In America this is a freedom issue. Milk is a natural product in its natural form, raw. There are many “legal” products that are FAR more deleterious to the health of the consumer than raw milk. To understand WHY milk was pasteurized in the first place research the history. Was it a good thing to do at the time? Under the circumstances, yes. But times change, technology changes and laws need to change. Just as in the US, cannabis is illegal in some states and legal in others, so is raw milk treated in law.
What a person puts into their body should be NO ONE’S BUSINESS, and that includes ANYTHING they decide to put into their body. At the same time gov’t should be completely OUT of the health care business. That way they have NO reason to be involved in what we eat/consume.