From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Because testing milk for safety is which: waste, or fraud, or
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:18:40 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-04-22 16:13, Skeeter OG wrote:
> In article <vu93nt$1gtg2$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
> says...
>>
>> On 2025-04-22 14:43, Skeeter OG wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> And that was true before safety regulations...
>>
>> ...but they clearly adulterated products then.
>
> It's a new age. Relax.
What makes you think that people and greed are any different?