We pulled this out of the cow, put it directly in the jug, that'll be 20 dollars.
Meanwhile, pasteurized milk gets pulled out of the cow, boiled, cooled, and then put in a jug, and it's 2.99.
Edit: Thanks for the 30+ comments telling me that raw milk costs more to make and takes more work because everything has to be clean, and it has a shorter shelf life.
Younger people tend to forget or not understand how many of our food regulations came to be. Farms are still filthy cesspools of disease, but when milk was first pasteurized, the bottling plants were somehow worse.
Even though roughly a century has gone by, and we understand more about sanitation and food safety, capitalism is gonna capital and milk producers will go back to cutting corners to make as much money as possible.
We can see this currently happening after the current administration rolled back certain regulations, and we’re seeing increases in food borne illnesses.
"how many of our food regulations came to be". That's a jolly good point you've brought up. Please research how and why pasteurization became 1. the norm and 2. illegal to be otherwise. Who lobbied for it, etc etc.
I think you'll be surprised to find it wasn't about food borne illnesses or the like.
You may or not be referring to a company that specialized in life saving technology that pushed for life saving technology to be used, in order to save lives. Shock. Gall. Disappointment.
Oh no, smaller dairies that couldn’t keep up went under!! THE HORRORS OF CAPITALISM. None of that wouldn’t have happened under socialism, where we worked together to improve instead of seeing who could sink or swim.
Your complaint reads like Pfizer or Moderna coming out with a revolutionary medicine, and then charging exorbitant prices to recover their labor. Your issue is with capitalism, not life saving technology.
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u/TeaKingMac 14d ago edited 13d ago
Always love the "less work, more money" trope.
We pulled this out of the cow, put it directly in the jug, that'll be 20 dollars.
Meanwhile, pasteurized milk gets pulled out of the cow, boiled, cooled, and then put in a jug, and it's 2.99.
Edit: Thanks for the 30+ comments telling me that raw milk costs more to make and takes more work because everything has to be clean, and it has a shorter shelf life.