I suppose that asking a 27 billion dollar industry to simply take out ads extolling the virtues of their product and arguing for the supposed dangers of raw milk is just asking for too much.

I don't get this.

This product is LEGAL in South Carolina. Consumer protections are still present in inspections of the facilities.

The majority of milk consumption is by persons who assume consumer protections are present, and who have no expectation that they should even know what is done to preserve it against not only spoilage, but adulteration. People forget or do not know that milk is not "bad" simply due to aging in a warm bottle, spoilage. It can contain contaminants which can't be detected by the consumer. Thus, inspection.

Where did the bottle at the convenience store come from, and is it clean?

Radwaste is right, just ignore the thousands of recalls of contaminated products that such inspections missed

so, thing is... this guy is not a threat, because you actually have to trek out to his farm to get the milk, he isn't a threat to their $billion industry, becasue they predicate much of that on SHIPPING product, and he can't really do that.

Do you think maybe a dairy farmer drinks milk from his own farm?

In a now far off time, there were small farmers everywhere who had local products they sold to local people, and because of that, products were FRESH.

Time goes on, and in the name of food safety... quality control is industrialized, and lotsa stuff is done to food. is is good?

Who knows, but it's profitable, and THAT is a good reason to have lobbyists push for legislation. The kind that mandates that the only people who can survive must have an economy of scale, that a small farmer can't.

I think this is a perverse incentives issue, but I would also bet coin that they will go after him again. It's a bad precedent for the milk mafia to let one guy go his own way.

"...just ignore the thousands of recalls of contaminated products that such inspections missed..."

Not sure what you're getting at. Are you saying that inspections should be stopped?

Want a little Round-Up™ in your breakfast cereal?

Wouldnt really care Rad, half the greens I bought last winter had to be thrown out due to the human shit on them that the inspectors missed

Want a little Round-Up™ in your breakfast cereal?

If you think it's not already in your water, you're certifiable.

People think raw milk tastes funny. No, that what actual milk tastes like, folks. And if I want to drink it, the state of Florida says I can't.

"Well, I would first suggest ignoring the government's advice to eat breakfast cereal, which is carb-filled and causes your blood sugar to rise and helps you put on fat."

That's a Two Wrongs fallacy AND a Straw Man.

Time and again history has shown us that unless a company's output is inspected by an objective 3rd party, shortcuts will lead to tragedy. Think, "Chinese dog food". I think they executed that guy, but that didn't being any dead animals back.

The solution does NOT involve stopping inspections.

Maybe you (plural) have a wrong idea about safety measures.
For some negligence, deliberate acts and/or accidents, action AFTER THE EVENT cannot save anyone or prevent injury. Proper inspections - some of which you CAN do as a consumer - investigate the PROCESS, not just the final product.

As I mentioned, this product is LEGAL in South Carolina, and this is possible because participating dairies use processes that the college ecology labs' and their own experience indicate produces the best product. Reminder: the product comes from the process, not the other way around.