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 15:43:57 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vu920d$1f8fm$4@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
says...
>
> On 2025-04-22 14:12, Skeeter OG wrote:
> > 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.
>
> "grep" it? No.
>
> Look it up in order to show you how stupid you are? Sure!
>
> Do you really think that companies can be trusted to act in the best
> interest of safety when they can make more money by doing otherwise?
They still have to have a product people will buy.