From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.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: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:30:19 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Libtard Rehabilitation Program
On 2025-04-22, Skeeter OG <invalid@none.com> 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.
And look at the various food processing plants that get inspected regularly
yet still have appalling conditions. So something is not working.
Boars Head comes to mind.
<https://youtu.be/GS-13isaJ9g?si=43Qu-Fu53bxHY58h>
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