Joel Salatin on Twinkies vs Raw Milk
Posted by
Karen De Coster on July 17,
2011 07:57 PM
Here's Joel Salatin at the 2:50 mark of the video, stating that he thinks
it is pretty amazing that we have a government that decides it is
perfectly safe to feed your kids ho-ho cakes, Twinkies, and mountain dew,
but its unsafe to feed them raw milk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YCuloesNc&feature=player_embedded
If you are the kind of person who delights in sniggering at boorish
government propaganda, you might enjoy the FDA's Big Lie on raw milk vs
pasteurized milk over at its corner on the web:
"
The Dangers of Raw Milk: Unpasteurized Milk Can Pose a Serious Health
Risk." Remember that the FDA, a criminal organization that
masquerades as a government agency, received its largest budget increase
ever in
2009 (for fiscal year 2010), and this increase was dished out in
order to fund that criminal organization's food "safety"
initiatives,
such as the monstrous HR 2749, the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Those initiatives fell under the FDA's "Protecting America's Food
Supply" umbrella (I do not make this up;
see here), which is a large-scale jihad against consumer food choice
and farmers and food producers who are not a part of the industrialized,
subsidized, favored food machine.
I blogged last week about my attendance at Salatin's Field Day at
Polyface Farms in Virginia. I thought it was incredible that whenever
Salatin opened up to the crowd for questions, he made the very clear
point that no questions were out of bounds - sustainable farming,
government intervention, gay marriage, politics, religion, whatever. He's
willing to put his mind and vision to any and all topics in a manner that
is thoughtful yet wholly uncompromising.
Following my blog post on LewRockwell.com reviewing the Field Day, I
received emails from other libertarians who were there, or who had family
members who were there at the Field Day. In fact, LewRockwell.com's Karen
Kwiatowski was also in attendance, and she's a big Salatin fan. I also
received an email from a fella (I will not reveal his identity) who read
my review and I paid a visit to his farm - in the same area - where there
are more pasteured chickens and grass-fed cattle being raised on
techniques and principles learned from Salatin. I brought home a gallon
of the good stuff from that Virginia farm, a state where you also need to
sell herd shares in order to produce and sell raw milk. Drinking this
stuff is, as a friend of mine noted, like drinking ice cream. It is real
and untainted milk as nature intended, and the "other stuff"
you buy in the store is the result of government's tyranny sold under the
facade of "safety." My car was loaded with all kinds of
contraband moving across state lines back to Michigan: Raw milk, great
Virginia wines, and guns/ammo, so it's a good thing I was able to speed
along for 600+ miles undetected.
A few days after the event on my last night in town, I had the good
fortune of being seated at a local restaurant (that uses Polyface Farms
meat) at a table right next to Mr. Salatin, who was having a meal with
friends and family. In talking with him, I discovered he was gracious and
and passionate and never about being politically correct or trying to
covey a "digestible" message. He is very aware of the Mises
Institute, and after hearing him talking about economics and the
entrepreneur in his many interviews and YouTubes, I was not surprised. We
talked about social media and his potential for using that platform, as
well as a few other colorful items. And there were no Twinkies or
mountain dew at his table.
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