Letters to the Editor
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maybe I should start smoking
It's interesting that I live in a country where I can buy cigarettes, booze, guns, lottery tickets, motorcycles, and trans-fatty foods, yet it's against the law to buy raw milk or cheese.
When I was in France last month, I bought some of the stinkiest cheese imaginable (I also stocked up on Mexoryl 60 spf sunblock, also curiously forbidden by our lovely FDA)...it was absolutely delicious!
So yeah, I can take up smoking for 20 years and most certainly develop lung cancer, yet I am denied a pleasurable experience because someone has already decided I'm not "responsible" enough to take my own risk? I've had a couple of bad cases of food poisoning from restaurants, and I sure as hell never received a "choice" in the matter.
We let 18 year olds go to war, but they are not allowed to eat what they want beforehand (I wonder if a death row prisoner would be denied raw milk as a last meal request!).
How about regulating and testing batches of raw milk? Or like the other reader suggested, reintroducing the cultures after the fact?