FDA probes raw milk operator
The Food and Drug Administration is conducting an investigation of cross-state sales of raw milk by Organic Pastures, a Fresno dairy operator that is California's largest raw milk supplier, CNN.com reports
MONDAY JUNE 17, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- The Food and Drug Administration is conducting an investigation of cross-state sales of raw milk by Organic Pastures, a Fresno dairy operator that is California's largest raw milk supplier, CNN.com reports.
The agency's move is viewed, according to CNN, as part of a crackdown by government officials on consumption of raw milk, which many proponents claim is a miracle food and offers a variety of health benefits.
The FDA seems determined. The agency has even tried to recruit a worker on the farm to secretly tape some evidence against the owner known as Mark McAfee. The worker rejected the offer.
There is a long history of government not wanting raw milk consumed, although many people value raw milk. Twenty-two U.S. states now ban sales of raw milk for human consumption, and the rest permit it to be sold within their borders, according to CNN. The FDA bans any cross-border sales.
Proponents either dislike the fact that the conventional or pasteurized milk likely comes from hormone-injected dairy cows, believe that the pasteurized milk is too harsh to digest, and/or believe that raw milk can help strengthen their immune systems and prevent digestive disorders.
Opponents on the other hand say raw milk can harbor pathogens such as salmonella, and drinking it can cause illness. Because of this, they say, people should not drink raw milk. But that probably is not enough of a reason that could justify the need for people to avoid raw milk.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cited by CNN.com, about 1000 people fell ill after using raw milk between 1998 and 2005; two died.
The fatalities from drinking raw milk, if there are any, is almost nothing compared to the death tolls resulting from highway traffic and medical errors, which are about 50,000 and 100,000 a year in the U.S., respectively.
There is an ongoing salmonella outbreak associated with consumption of raw tomatoes. The outbreak has resulted in at least 277 cases of salmonella illness and 43 hospitalizations in 28 states since mid-April. Critics questioned why the states did not ban selling and eating raw tomatoes?
Many products such as drugs are more dangerous than raw milk. They are allowed because it is believed that their benefits outweigh their risks. When it comes to raw milk, whether the risks outweigh its benefits or vice versa, all probably depend upon what you prefer, pasteurized milk or raw milk.
By Jimmy Downs, and edited by Heather Kelley.
Jun 17, 2008 - 10:21:19 AM
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A Short History of Alzheimer’s disease
By Norman A Jacobson, BSEE
$20 Trillion dollar medical bill
$20 Trillion dollars is what the Alzheimer’s Association estimates that we will pay to the Alzheimer’s industry for the treatment and care of Alzheimer’s patients (victims [family] not included).
120 year old disease.
In the 1890’s young workers in the newly established aluminum industry became demented, suffered memory loss, and died (Alzheimer’s disease). The factory owners determined that the cause of the disease was aluminum poisoning. They then implemented safety measures that effectively prevented Alzheimer’s disease in their workers. It was easy to prevent Alzheimer’s disease then.
10 years later
In 1901 a demented woman who was accusing her husband of being unfaithful became the first official case of Alzheimer’s disease. She had dementia, memory loss, died later, and had aluminum plaques in the brain as the cause of severe brain damage.
1911
This extremely rare disease of dementia, memory loss, death, and aluminum plaques in the brain was given the name Alzheimer’s disease. It was required that aluminum plaques be found in the brain to confirm that it was Alzheimer’s disease. 5.3 million people in the U.S. now have Alzheimer’s.
The European Food Safety Authority
In 2008, The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) sponsored by the nations of the European Community in Europe released a report that aluminum and its salts are poisonous and set a maximum safe level from all sources of: “1mg. of aluminum per 1kg of body weight per week.”
Murder Suspect
In 2009, the husband would have been a prime murder suspect on ID Investigation Discovery for the 1901 mysterious illness and death of his wife. How did she get aluminum poisoning? There probably was a lot of publicity in the 1890s about aluminum workers dying of aluminum poisoning. And it was available in 1901. Dr. Alzheimer was a psychiatrist and probably not aware of all the factory workers dying of aluminum poisoning.
Refusal to test Aluminum
The FDA and the Pharmaceutical Industry presently refuse to test aluminum hydroxide and other salts of aluminum as possible causes Alzheimer’s disease. (They would lose $ 20 Trillion dollars in revenue, when the prevention and cause is found [Aluminum poisoning].)
Poisonous levels in food and medicine
By EFSA standards, American foods and medicines have tremendously high toxic levels of aluminum salts added to them. This explains why the rate of Alzheimer’s disease is four times higher in the US as compared to other countries such as India.
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