From: Skeeter OG <invalid@none.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Because testing milk for safety is which: waste, or fraud, or abuse?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:12:20 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vu8vhj$1ctqu$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
says...
>
> On 2025-04-22 13:39, Skeeter OG wrote:
> > In article <vu8s2e$196cb$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
> > says...
> >>
> >> ' The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control
> >> program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to
> >> reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to
> >> an internal email seen by Reuters.'
> >>
> >>
> >> <https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/?ref=upstract.com>
> >>
> >> But no problem for you, MAGAts, huh?
> >>
> >> 'The suspension is another disruption to the nation's food safety
> >> programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 employees of the
> >> Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, as part
> >> of President Donald Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.'
> >
> > No one had an issue with milk before the regulations.
>
> LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
>
> 'We are living in a time when many see ?deregulation? as a goal in
> itself. Red tape is obnoxious and counterproductive, and government
> should just leave businesses alone. That goes for an expanding array of
> consumer choices. When it comes to food, for example, an odd combination
> of the crunchy left and libertarian right now bridle at laws limiting
> their right to access ?natural? commodities, like raw milk.
>
> ...
>
> I only made it to the second page without gagging. There Blum explains
> how milk was often adulterated in the late 19th century. It was watered
> down, and chalk or plaster powder was mixed in to get the color right.
> To replace the layer of cream on top, pureed calf brains could be used.
>
> ...In the case of milk, formaldehyde was a favored option. Commercial
> products such as ?Preservaline? hit the market for precisely this
> purpose. Added to fresh milk, it could prevent curdling for days, the
> same way it could preserve dead bodies. Sadly, it didn?t have quite the
> positive effect on the living children who consumed it. Clusters of
> child deaths in various cities in the late 1890s turned public attention
> to what was being put into milk. Blum suggests dozens of children died,
> particularly those in orphanages and hospitals, which bought the
> cheapest supplies.
>
> ...
>
> For milk, a solution existed: pasteurization. It was already mandatory
> in some countries, but U.S. producers resisted on the grounds of cost
> and hassle. No, it would not allow old milk to stay shelf stable for
> weeks without refrigeration (something some of the dairy firms were
> obviously seeking when they used formaldehyde). But it would save
> consumers from the risks of salmonella, listeria, campylobacter (then
> known as ?infant cholera?)?not to mention formaldehyde itself.'
Did I make you grep all that? The fact is there are to
many regulations. Do you really think with our technology
that they wont keep making good milk? Moron.