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"Harmful" is a meaningless term and contributes nothing to the discussion. Cars are harmful. Alcohol is harmful. Freedom is harmful. So what's your fucking point?

I bring up death because that's the canard trotted out by raw milk haters. And it doesn't happen with any appreciable frequency despite the large numbers of people consuming raw milk.

I'm not disagreeing that both raw and pasteurized milk can potentially cause serious illness, however I do not believe the numbers are large enough to be cause for concern or excessive regulation by control freaks who need to dictate what people put in their bodies. Perhaps you disagree and that's fine.



My fucking point is a very simple point about risk. There are no rewards to drinking raw milk, but there is high risk of significant harm.

The ratio of people drinking raw milk to suffering severe harm from it is much worse than for cars, alcohol, or freedom.

> control freaks who need to dictate what people put in their bodies.

Do you agree that parents should not feed their children a dangerous product that has no benefit? Or is that a bit of control freakery that you don't care about because bias?


You are being a troll. You don't know you're talking about [1]. You can do the math to figure out that you're wrong. I already have. If you can contribute anything remotely productive I will respond otherwise have fun building regulation castles in the sky.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...




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