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: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:21:06 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vuc5cu$cuvp$2@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
says...
>
> 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?
Who said that? Oh YOU did.