Josh,Josh wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 5:42 pmPerhaps you should. I visit the farm I get my milk from, for example, in order to make sure I'm happy with how they're treating their animals and so forth.Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:42 pmBovine TB is a thing in the third world, and it is somewhat different than TB from a human source. IF milk is not the vector, what is? If you undo regulation, will you continue to have well kept farms and healthy animals? Most of us city folk can’t visit the farms that produce our food.
And perhaps those of us who do should be exempt from having to put up with laws set up to ensure giant, filthy commercial operations can continue to sell their half-poisoned food to urbanites who "can't" visit the farms that produce their food.
Yes, we should be exempt from these laws, by our choice, and by our own free will to accept the consequences for our actions.
Apparently, these "city slickers" have never been to a stockyard and seen what is being fed to the animals they will eventually eat.
The stockyard will take the refuse from the restaurant industry, like old pizza crusts, junk food, anything remotely edible, and throw it into the slop for the cows to eat to fatten them up before they are killed. They fatten them up, and as long as the animal can stagger across the weighing scale, they will process them.
Remember "Mad Cow Disease"? They were taking old cows they could not process and grinding them up into a feed pellet to be fed to other cows. There was a "prion" or crystal disease that evades high heat when they turn a cow into pellets that transmits the Mad Cow disease from the dead cow to the cow that eats the pellets. Humans can also be infected by prions from eating squirrels and other unclean animals.
Leviticus 11 gives a list of the animals men should eat, and those that we should avoid. The general idea is that men should not eat scavengers or predators, as they concentrate toxins from the animals or unclean things that they eat. Other unclean animals, like squirrels, shellfish, and rabbits, carry diseases that can infect humans.
"You are what you eat", so it would reason, "You are what 'it' ate". Whatever a an animal eats, if you eat that animal, you have eaten the same thing.
That is why grass fed beef is so much better than store-bought beef.
I remember going to an Amish farm and seeing two pigs in a large pen, without a blade of grass in it. They were sniffing each other's rears. When one pig defecated, the other one immediately ate it, and then the two pigs fought over the defecation. I don't eat pig meat. It is gross. And pigs are a scavenger that collect toxins.
What "modern farming" has done, as it is designed by the money hungry people that run the FDA, is they have turned ordinary cows into scavengers. They have made an "clean" animal into one that is "unclean". They have turned a cow into a scavenger that eats junk.
But try it yourself. Go buy some grass fed ground beef from a local farmer, and some cheap hamburger from your local "big box" store. Put them on the grill and see which one oozes the most grease, or whatever that stuff really is. Then put both samples on a plate and feed it to your family, and ask them which one they like the best.
You are eating what the cow ate, and for the city slicker, they don't know, and don't want to know, what that is. I love grass fed beef and lamb, it is very healthy.
Yes, we need to be able to "opt out" of these ridiculous big box farming projects. When they arrest a small farmer, they are attacking all of us. No one has complained about this Amish farmer or his products, only the FDA. And they are doing it to "send a message" to all of the other farmers.
