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Alan wrote:
> 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
>>>> On 2025-04-22 14:43, Skeeter OG wrote:
>>>>> In article <vu920d$1f8fm$4@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
>>>>>> On 2025-04-22 14:12, Skeeter OG wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <vu8vhj$1ctqu$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
>>>>>>>> On 2025-04-22 13:39, Skeeter OG wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <vu8s2e$196cb$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
>>>>>>>>>> ' 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?

All that there testin' ta make shure food
is safe ta eat jus makes it more 'spensive. Who
cares if people get sick or sumthin