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 19:00:21 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Libtard Rehabilitation Program
On 2025-04-24, Skeeter OG <invalid@none.com> wrote:
> 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.
He seems to do that a lot.
--
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