[grannyg00se]

"If the government really wanted to make sure you are healthy and alive - they would go after real threats" "Alcohol-impaired drivers kill 30 people every DAY. 200 kids die every year because a drunk driver killed them."

Drunk driving is illegal in most places. People do get arrested and loose their license for it, get a record, and go to prison.

[throwawayyyz]

Exactly right. The drunk drivers get punished, not the wine makers or convenience store seller.

But when a person becomes sick after buying raw milk - a SWAT team is sent to raid the local dairy that sold the milk.

However, the same is not done when a person becomes sick from eating contaminated meat that came from a factory farm. Why? Because there's no raw dairy lobby in Washington.

Pasteurization of dairy is of course necessary when the cows are raised in the terrible conditions that they are in most farms today and fed the soy and corn that makes them physically sick. When we used to get our raw milk it was from a local farm we could visit on weekends with our kids, and it was the product of healthy cows who did not have the need to be injected with hormones and antibiotics, who grazed on grass when not milked (by hand) and did not spend their time living on top of their own manure.

[grannyg00se]

Industrialized edible product creation is largely a sick, perverted, disgusting process and it is supported by huge corporate financial interests.

Selling raw milk should not be criminal.

Those are two separate issues and trying to argue for one by pointing out the other isn't really effective.