The All-Powerful Atheismo: stiletto_the_wise: That's right, consumer. Only corporate-produced factory-milk should be allowed. Allowing any old schmuck to milk a cow and sell it would undermine Big Dairy and that cannot be allowed.

Who doesn't miss the taste of listeria from their childhood? Oh look I'm getting wistful and teary-eyed... hopefully that's wistfulness and not salmonella

sorry you missed out on the deliciousness that is raw milk...

samardzic77: I've been drinking raw milk for a few months now. The milk is tested every week and is extremely clean, cleaner than most grocery store milk

Care to elaborate, because I'm calling complete BS.

Yes, it probably tastes better. Its probably safe enough. But in no way is it cleaner or safer than grocery store milk.

I think you guys have all missed the scariest part of the article:

But Judge Peter Tetley overturned the acquittals on 15 of the charges on Sept. 28.

Judges in Canada are apparently allowed to overturn not guilty verdicts. Farking scary

I've noticed it's been getting pretty punny around lately here. I'm not sure I like it.

Dnrta: did he stomp on a cow's hoof?

/California, California, hey!

anuran: The reason we have laws against raw milk is the result of not having them. Thousands used to die every year in the US from cholera, listeria and other diseases from unpasteurized milk. "Deliciousness" is no substitute for "Living until you're old enough to vote"

Correlation does not equal causation. Those laws came into effect around the time that pasteurization equipment was becoming cheap, reliable, and mass produced enough that virtually every producer was able to afford it. Before that time pasteurized milk was more expensive than non-pasteurized milk.

Pasteurization would have become the norm anyway, as costs came down, because of the benefits it brings. Increased shelf life was the reason my grandparents told me that their parents started pasteurizing, reduced disease was nothing more than a helpful side effect as far as they were concerned at the time since, according to her, few people got sick from milk on the farm. City folk may have been a different mater though.

The laws did nothing to speed the adoption of pasteurization, they simply reflected a trend that was already underway by the market. The exact same can be seen with child labor. Child labor in factories was being phased out decades before there was any serious political motivation to outlaw it. The society had become wealth enough that, for the first time in history, child labor was no longer necessary to supplement the parents income.

Eww, ect.