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To: Rambi who wrote (141145)	7/19/2010 10:17:14 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543205

I fear that we are slowly squeezing that can do spirit out of Americans with our need to control every last threat. Why try? Because private industry has a long track record of killing people, wrecking the environment and wrecking our financial system when they are allowed to make huge profits from stupid risk-taking where only consumers and citizens have to pay the price when something goes wrong. We will hear the "don't stifle our magic private sector" chant many, many times going forward even while we clean up the financial mess, the BP mess, the Massey coal mess, the Toyota mess, etc. Seems self-evident to me.

To: Rambi who wrote (141145)	7/19/2010 7:10:57 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543205

They aren't raiding many food co-ops. In general the feds seem pretty well able to let folks alone in the raw food market. Where they do not, it's usually because there have been several lethal incidents (as there have been with raw milk) and where an alternative exists to make the product completely safe. The feds have not mandated that everyone eat cooked spinach only. So they can distinguish between products that cannot be made perfectly safe (spinach) and products that can (milk). I'm not sure the taste difference between non-homogenized pasteurized milk, and raw milk is go gigantic it's necessary to protest over it. But of course, people will pick and choose their issues. However, I don't think this one issue shows that the feds cannot discriminate. They seem to have been FAR too hands off during the Bush admin- and I'm glad to see the FDA come back and regulate just about anything. I sincerely hope they start doing more with imported food- which I suspect has a lot of problems we are not catching.