In 2015 in the United States of America...It is against the law..to buy Milk.

I live out here in Amish country and I've never seen signs for raw milk anywhere and I have a really large territory to cover. Why would anybody want to drink non-pasturized bacteria infested milk in the first place?

 

For the same reasons that would make you choose to put your children at risk of getting polio by not getting them vaccinated.

There's a huge backlash against government in most of it's forms these days. That's because people don't understand what the world looks like in the absence of effective government. It's been a long time since people had 9 kids just so 4 or 5 of them would live to adulthood. It's been not so long a time since big companies did whatever they wanted secure in the notion that nobody was tracking cancer deaths around their factories and plants. It was just a few years ago that you could be arrested for a consensual sex act with another consenting adult in your own bedroom.

Big government isn't a good thing but the alternatives all have major flaws also. People live *much* longer and tend to be wealthier in general since big government became the norm. We need to find a way to stop the trend towards big government funneling money to the wealthiest. That's the problem right now.

 

I thought the same thing when i saw the sign.

 

I enjoy a good bout of diarrhea now and again so it sounds pretty enticing to me.

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That's a damn good question

 

You need help.....

 

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fixed my post above (sorry if I upset the "adults" … lost my head)





Better? ; )

 

If you saw the bucket I used to milk into when I was a teenager you'd never drink raw milk again.

 

Because there are good reasons we are treating milk. And selling tainted food SHOULD be a crime.

 

Craft beer, I call it Crap beer. Shit is nasty.

 

Link?

 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

your life expectancy at birth as a white male was 38 years in 1850. 48 years in 1900. 63 years in 1939. 71 years in 1990. 76 years in 2011.

How did government change in the interim between 1850 and 2011?

It got bigger. MUCH bigger.

 

So I take it you like Miller Lite, Busch? Of all the thousands of craft beers they all are "nasty"?

 

Miller Lite and Coors Light.
Have tried many craft beers, none have been good.

 

It's a bit of a stretch to think that government control was the catalyst for advanced age, even for you.

 

Well the other potential catalyst would have been mandatory vaccination The problem is that mandatory vaccination began in the late 1700's in New England and was the law of the land by 1809.

Think about it for a second. The government was mandating vaccinations in 1809 but the average white male was still only living to 38 in 1850. Now the life expectancy is more than double.

I'm hard-pressed to come up with another singular event between 1850 and 2011 that would explain the difference.

 

I think it's a combination of things:
1. public health projects (immunization against smallpox, polio, measels, etc.)
2. better living standards, e.g. cleaner drinking water as well as opting for more nutritious dietary alternatives (White Castle 99c veggie sliders, Kraft singles 'Lite") etc.

fyi: Japan currently enjoys the highest life expectancy rate of 82.5 years. Gotta be the fish. Same with Iceland - omega 3 ftw.

 

Why does it have to be A singular event?

Why can't it be an amalgamation of multiple events or more likely permutations of multiple events?

Is big government A reason?

Sure.

Is it THE reason? Or the MOST significant reason?

Hardly.

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Exactly. It's like trying to pin evolution to a singular event.