Milk Politics .... Politics of Milk

GURPS

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Randy Sowers wants to sell his milk in Pennsylvania, which is no problem under Pennsylvania law.

But under FDA regulations, in order for him to sell skim milk across state lines with an honest label (“skim milk”), it needs to have some dishonest additives: artificial vitamins A and D, in amounts set by federal regulation.

Without those additives, the FDA requires Sowers to call his product “imitation skim milk” or “imitation milk product.”

Who even knows what that is? And more importantly, who would buy it?

The FDA’s reasoning is that injecting artificial vitamins replaces natural ones that get lost in the process of skimming off cream. The FDA argues that without those additives, the public would be misled into buying a nutritionally inferior product masquerading as milk.

Never mind that fats are nutrients, and skim milk has been marketed as having less fat than whole milk for over 70 years. Virtually everyone who buys skim milk knows it is nutritionally inferior to whole milk.

And it turns out that many of the required additives are valueless to consumers. Because the injected vitamins A and D are fat-soluble, they tend to dissipate in low-fat skim milk.


https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04...ace-prison-for-calling-skim-milk-by-its-name/
 
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