Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[alldembirds]

I dont care what you have to say about it, my inbox has been beat to death about it. You have "facts" you base your opinion on and i respect that, i have "facts" i base my opinion on. I just dont think the government should be able to dictate what you drink. You can ask 10 different people to tell the story of why we have forced pasteurization and you will get 10 diff reasons why. It all goes back to politics.

 

[sepaditty1]

Today I was told that I have a fine herd of chickens.

 

[7 Biddies]

Today I was told that I have a fine herd of chickens.

Are they exceptionally large chickens?

 

[Peep_Show]

Must be meat birds.

 

[vehve]

Today I was told that I have a fine herd of chickens.

To be fair, that's one of the weirdest parts of English, all the different names for groups of animals. I found out today that a group of worms is referred to as a bed, clat, clew or bunch. A murder of crows is my favorite though.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I dont care what you have to say about it, my inbox has been beat to death about it. You have "facts" you base your opinion on and i respect that, i have "facts" i base my opinion on. I just dont think the government should be able to dictate what you drink. You can ask 10 different people to tell the story of why we have forced pasteurization and you will get 10 diff reasons why. It all goes back to politics.

Just because I prefer accurate history doesn't mean that I think people shouldn't be allowed to drink raw milk. I don't drink it because my first college degree was in Foods and Nutrition.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

To be fair, that's one of the weirdest parts of English, all the different names for groups of animals. I found out today that a group of worms is referred to as a bed, clat, clew or bunch. A murder of crows is my favorite though.

Yes, a murder of crows, a parliament of rooks, and a bouquet of pheasants.

 

[vehve]

Yes, a murder of crows, a parliament of rooks, and a bouquet of pheasants.

Looked up some more, and this one's a bit poetic; "A memory of elephants", somehow that appeals to me.

 

[alldembirds]

Just because I prefer accurate history doesn't mean that I think people shouldn't be allowed to drink raw milk. I don't drink it because my first college degree was in Foods and Nutrition.

like i said ask 10 people why they will give you ten reasons why. I have no reason to believe your "accurate history" is any more accurate than anybody else's . History is written by the victor. The dairy industry won I am not surprised so many people have been brainwashed.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

like i said ask 10 people why they will give you ten reasons why. I have no reason to believe your "accurate history" is any more accurate than anybody else's . History is written by the victor. The dairy industry won I am not surprised so many people have been brainwashed.

Hi -

I was Phi Alpha Theta and know how to evaluate and use original sources, AKA historiography.

First the Chicago pasteurization law did not require all milk to be pasteurized; it was a response to the state of Illinois outlawing mandatory tuberculin testing of cattle. In fact, public health officials of the era preferred mandatory tuberculin testing to pasteurization. Chicago mandated pasteurization in only some cases, and the mandate was a result of the Illinois *outlawing* mandatory tuberculin testing.

Chicago was the first local area to mandate pasteurization - this was offered as an alternative to *voluntary* turberculin testing.. This was because Illinois outlawed mandating tuberculosis tests for cattle because Illinois was one of the last states to not have a state TB testing program for cattle. What this meant was that over the years Illinois had become a dumping ground for cattle that tested positive for TB. Since the accepted practice was to reimburse farmers for tubercular cattle that were destroyed, and it was estimated that possibly one-fourth of all dairy cattle in the state were infected, the state legislature panicked at the potential cost of reimbursement for that many cattle. So, being Illinois, they outlawed even state and local testing mandatory testing.

Meanwhile, back in the city of Chicago, despite a philanthropist having donated a modern pasteurization plant, a lot of tubercular milk was landing in the city and infecting children. The initial law passed in 1908 - but it did not mandate pasteurization for all milk; mandatory pasteurization would not come to pass in Chicago until 1916, after many other large cities had already made pasteurization mandatory.

Chicago created a two-tier milk grading system. The initial law stated that if dairymen voluntarily tuberculin tested their cattle, they could sell raw milk as milk in the higher grade. Those who did not test could sell their milk as the higher grade if they pasteurized that milk. Milk that was neither pasteurized nor from tuberculin tested cattle could only be sold as the cheaper, lower grade.



There are diseases we no longer hear about, such as cholera infantum that were essentially eliminated by pasteurization.

What I hate is people who pass along rumors, conspiracy theories, and other things as "fact." Yes, there were adulterants in milk - indeed, axle grease blends were sometimes sold as butter - but pasteurization did not address those issues. the "Pure Food and Drug Act" and the "Meat Inspection Act" only dealt with items in interstate commerce or intended for export.

http://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/legislation/ucm148690.htm