Pennsylvania farmer blocked from selling unpasteurized milk outside of that state, but it is okay to

[Bullitt]

My point is milk is a fad in the U.S. created by the milk industry there are other things to drink that are much better for you. Like water.

Try living on just water.

I don't think milk is a fad as a result of the American milk industry. Cow's milk and goat's milk has been drank for many centuries all over the world. Animals don't harvest wheat and make bread either, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't eat bread. I like milk and many of the things that are made with milk.

Of course drinking milk is not needed for human survival. People are very flexible in their diets. Before the Irish potato famine, the average Irish family lived mostly on milk and potatoes.

Many Asians and Native-Americans become lactose intolerant after childhood. But most Europeans can drink milk as adults because people in Europe have been drinking milk for many centuries.

I read an interesting account of when Vikings encountered Inuit people (Eskimos), which they called "Scralings", in what is now Canada in about the year 1,000. (Columbus didn't discover America.) The Vikings shared their drink, a mixture of milk and honey, with the Inuit people. The two groups parted as friends. But the Inuits became sick to their stomachs, and they thought the Vikings had poisoned them. The Inuits came back later and attacked the Vikings with bows. By the way, Scandinavian families lived in Greenland until sometime in the 1300s. There was a mini-ice age that caused starvation, and people died or went to Iceland or Scandinavia. So when Columbus sailed in 1492 there were no Scandinavians living in North America or Greenland.

Anyway, back to the original topic. I think a farmer in Pennsylvania might be able to ship milk to a neighboring state easier than to the other side of Pennsylvania in some cases. But it sounded like from the article that the farmer could ship his milk as long as it was within the state.

My question was, why would the state allow the milk to be distributed if the USDA won't? It seems that someone is wrong or someone is not doing the job they should be doing.

I have only drank store-bought milk all my life. My mother said when me and my siblings were little she tried to give us milk from my grandfather's cow, but we wouldn't drink the milk. My grandfather was angry when my mother bought milk at the store.

 

[chickened]

The USDA is protecting the heavily subsidized milk industry is why, they are using interstate commerce law to strongarm people.

Every time the government gets involved in a private enterprise they use the strongarm tactics to perpetuate their agenda. Look what they are doing to GM and the Chevy Volt.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrick...p-model-of-the-government-industrial-complex/

http://jalopnik.com/5870507/report-every-chevy-volt-has-over-250000-in-government-subsidies

 

[chickened]

Milk consumption by country: http://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?commodity=milk&graph=domestic-consumption

 

[Nitrous]

OK with the exception of your cat. Put it this way in the wild nothing drinks it as an adult like sucking on a cow by another adult cow for instance. My point is milk is a fad in the U.S. created by the milk industry there are other things to drink that are much better for you. Like water.

Humans have consumed milk since the beginning of recorded history.

 

[chickened]

I understand that people have drank it since old times but there was no way to preserve it so cheese was the main use for it.

It has been promoted by the dairy industry over the last 60 years or so which has lead to it's increase in consumption. Most early settlers in the U.S. used millk for butter and cheese than fresh drinking as did other undeveloped nations. It was never a staple of other's diets. The Chinese use of it today is relatively low per capita.

I am just saying it is more popular here than other parts of the world and I believe it is due in part to the claims put forth by the producers more so than it's popularity, otherwise why would they still pay to advertise it?

Humans have consumed milk since the beginning of recorded history.

 

[rainplace]

I think the problem is that he was selling to a state where they have different laws regarding raw milk and by shipping his product over state lines he broke the law in the other state... probably his state as well. Since he crossed state lines, he entered the feds jurisdiction.

The USDA says that raw milk can be harmful, even in Pennsylvania, but it allows each state to allow or disallow raw milk.

For the record I am a raw milk drinker. Before I could get raw milk, I chose pasteurized over homogenized.

 

[Chicks on DL]

I know that I am a little late in seeing this discussion but in case chickened and Bullitt still check this thread I am going to put my two cents in. Raw milk is VERY good for you, pasteurized milk is BAD for you. When you pasteurize milk you are taking all the good enzymes and good bacterias (yes there are good bacterias) in the milk that aid with digestion and the absorption of nutrients. I will only buy milk from a small farm. Large operations are where you encounter the risk of contamination. See this site to educate yourself on raw milk www.westonaprice.org.

I will bite my tongue about the FDA at the risk of sounding crazier than you probably already think I am.