BARFBLOG: Raw milk BS - (barfblog)
March 30, 2008 – 8:28 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/raw-milk/raw-milk-bs/index.html
The advertisement masquerading as a story about raw milk in the March 23, 2008 Boston Globe magazine (Got raw milk?) should have noted that the author is an advocate for raw milk, which may help explain the statistical cherry picking throughout the story like comparing confirmed illnesses from raw dairy products to the overall estimated illnesses from food.
A table of raw dairy outbreaks is available at http://www.foodsafety.ksu.edu/articles/384/RawMilkOutbreakTable.pdf
Yes, lots of foods make people sick. And people should be free to choose what they ingest.
The 19th century English utilitarian philosopher, John Stuart Mill, noted that choice has limits, stating, “if it [in this case the consumption of raw unpasteurized milk] only directly affects the person undertaking the action, then society has no right to intervene, even if it feels the actor is harming himself.”
Excused from Mills libertarian principle are those people who are incapable of self-government children.
Science can be used […]
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http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=25120
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