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: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:50:21 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-04-23 18:30, pothead wrote:
> 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.
So you think not inspecting them will make it better?