Friday, March 16, 2007

Put Your Hands Up and Step Away From the Milk

From Time:

Forget the war on drugs, there is a new scourge spreading across the land. Raw milk pushers are hading out jugs of the white stuff from the backs of their trucks. New schemes are popping up that allow people to buy a “share” in a cow. Some are questioning why, when there are so many other problems in the world, people are being prosecuted for selling raw milk:
What raw milk fans most resent is stepped-up efforts to crack down on a personal choice that wasn't doing anyone else any harm. "There are 65,000 child-porn websites," asks indignant co-op member Nancy Sanders, a pediatric nurse and mother of five from Des Plaines, Ill. "Why doesn't the government go after those?”

If you are interested in the perspective of a pro-raw milk organization you can find it here.

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