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 17:39:17 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vu984g$1kpjj$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
says...
>
> 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?
I never said anything about that.