Here’s the Friday open comments post, following reader responses to a recent poll.
The use of pseudonyms and anonymous postings will be fine.
Although the template has a space for a name, email address, and website, those who want to leave a field blank can do so. Comments will be moderated, against profanity or trolls. Otherwise, have at it.
I’ll keep the post open through Sunday afternoon.
For this week, a suggestion for a topic: Should Raw Milk Sales be Legal in Wisconsin?
If people can buy cigarettes then they should be able to buy raw milk.
Hi John,
Raw milk is more profitable for small farmers, and big dairies fear that if small ones get that income stream, they’ll be harder to control. It’s all about controlling the small competition.
Milk, it does a body good! That’s what all dairies used to advertise, but now they want to tell people that not all milk is good. Now the only good kind is the kind they like to sell. Co-ops that call themselves organic don’t actually believe in organic at all, unless its organic green paper they can take to a bank.
Raw milk producers are getting a raw deal, and consumers aren’t really allowed to have a 100% organic product.
If guns, alcohol and tobacco are legal, then raw milk should be legal. It’s still legal for a person to buy a carton of eggs and put them in a blender for a drink, so it should be legal to buy raw milk and put it in a glass to drink it.
How soon after Doyle leaves office until he becomes a dairy lobbyist?
Hello Mr. Adams We can’t have chickens for homegrown eggs, either! 🙁 No chickens, no raw milk. McDonalds is still legal, just not homegrown natural foods.
The reason tobacco is legal and raw milk isn’t is because Wisconsin doesn’t have any big tobacco companies in-state trying to kill small farm competition If we had big and small tobacco farms together, we would only be able to smoke waht big farms said we should.
doyle became a lobbyist the day he vetoed the raw milk bill
Hmmm…what exactly does Raw Milk taste like? And is there Raw Chocolate Milk..? Hmmm…
Thanks for the many comments in favor of raw milk. I have added it to my task list to drink some raw milk and blog about it.
The Phantom Stranger asks if there is raw chocolate milk. It just might be possible… here’s a link to an article that asks, Would it be possible for a cow to produce chocolate milk?:
“The question is, could you add a gene from a cocoa tree to a cow and have the cow make chocolate milk?
It’s not so farfetched an idea. For example, scientists have taken a gene from a spider and added it to goats. The new gene lets the goats produce spider silk proteins in their milk. Scientists did this hoping that they could filter the spider proteins out of the milk and make super-strong string from it. So why not add chocolate genes to a cow and get chocolate milk? Making a chocolate milk cow is not quite so simple. One reason is that chocolate milk does not contain just one thing. To make chocolate milk, you need to add sugar to the milk as well as cocoa. So scientists would first have to figure out how to make milk sweeter. Without the extra sweetness, the chocolate milk would not taste very good.”
But that’s where apparently sweet, raw milk would be perfect for chocolate cow’s milk.
Not only might this happen, I think it should happen. Go ahead, dairy farmers: Do something amazing!