Article:"Why are Americans Afraid of Eating Raw Milk Cheese"
Nov 12, 2019 17:45:37 GMT -5
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Post by gjhinesjr on Nov 12, 2019 17:45:37 GMT -5
Came across this article today on my phone: Why are Americans Afraid of Eating Raw Milk Cheese?
Talks about raw milk/cheese and the growing marketplace outside of pasteurized dairy products.
At a time when I'm having a seriously hard time deciding on whether or not to keep my cows, discussions like the above article continue to captivate me and make me second guess. I'm always just struck with this big feeling of "it's all just so unfortunate". In the sense that, it's so unfortunate that you have a growing population of our country that highly prioritizes artisan/local/etc food production. A whole generation that is yearning to have some connection to something. And yet, our own system of government makes it so hard to simply enjoy these things. To the point that you are essentially an outlaw by purchasing/selling raw milk products in a lot of places.
And I get it. We all want/need/deserve a safe food supply. I have my own viewpoints on the amount of safety vs freedom an individual should get to decide regarding that process, but I acknowledge the need is there. At the same time, I can't help but find a bit of comic irony in the fact that our news stories are filled with scientific medical breakthroughs, new global warming research, yada yada yada. Yet when it comes to something like raw milk products, it's all based on decades old methodologies and statistical outliers.
And oh by the way, then they throw something like the Green New Deal out there and make it seem like we're all planet killers for having cows in the first place.
Half the time I don't know whether to dig in, make an effort to keep living the agrarian lifestyle and potentially offer a local product to those who want it. Or simply say screw it, the train is barreling along in the opposite direction, what's the point?
If you want to grow kale in some fertigated mist on the 5th floor of skyscraper, you're a hero that's solving the worlds problems. But if you're taking care of an animal that's helped give rise to human civilization, in a manner similar to what's been done for thousands of years, you're somehow some ignorant complacent danger to those around you.
I dunno, I think I just needed to shake my head and rant. I read articles like that I think thank god there are those of us still out there, but then I wonder, is it too late already? Maybe we and our cows really are just relics. What hope do we have and against the industrial machine that everyone seems to so openly hate, but so fervently assist at the same time?
Hard not to juxtapose the above article, with the one talking about Dean Foods (owners of Dairy Pure, Organic Valley, and Land O'Lakes) filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. I don't wish anyone to fail, and I know the dairy business still has many small family farms producing conventional milk. But sometimes I think the faster the whole industrial dairy sector collapses, the faster we can get new laws that give the small producer an equal chance.
Talks about raw milk/cheese and the growing marketplace outside of pasteurized dairy products.
At a time when I'm having a seriously hard time deciding on whether or not to keep my cows, discussions like the above article continue to captivate me and make me second guess. I'm always just struck with this big feeling of "it's all just so unfortunate". In the sense that, it's so unfortunate that you have a growing population of our country that highly prioritizes artisan/local/etc food production. A whole generation that is yearning to have some connection to something. And yet, our own system of government makes it so hard to simply enjoy these things. To the point that you are essentially an outlaw by purchasing/selling raw milk products in a lot of places.
And I get it. We all want/need/deserve a safe food supply. I have my own viewpoints on the amount of safety vs freedom an individual should get to decide regarding that process, but I acknowledge the need is there. At the same time, I can't help but find a bit of comic irony in the fact that our news stories are filled with scientific medical breakthroughs, new global warming research, yada yada yada. Yet when it comes to something like raw milk products, it's all based on decades old methodologies and statistical outliers.
And oh by the way, then they throw something like the Green New Deal out there and make it seem like we're all planet killers for having cows in the first place.
Half the time I don't know whether to dig in, make an effort to keep living the agrarian lifestyle and potentially offer a local product to those who want it. Or simply say screw it, the train is barreling along in the opposite direction, what's the point?
If you want to grow kale in some fertigated mist on the 5th floor of skyscraper, you're a hero that's solving the worlds problems. But if you're taking care of an animal that's helped give rise to human civilization, in a manner similar to what's been done for thousands of years, you're somehow some ignorant complacent danger to those around you.
I dunno, I think I just needed to shake my head and rant. I read articles like that I think thank god there are those of us still out there, but then I wonder, is it too late already? Maybe we and our cows really are just relics. What hope do we have and against the industrial machine that everyone seems to so openly hate, but so fervently assist at the same time?
Hard not to juxtapose the above article, with the one talking about Dean Foods (owners of Dairy Pure, Organic Valley, and Land O'Lakes) filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. I don't wish anyone to fail, and I know the dairy business still has many small family farms producing conventional milk. But sometimes I think the faster the whole industrial dairy sector collapses, the faster we can get new laws that give the small producer an equal chance.