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In its war against raw milk, CDC manipulates data
Posted By Dr. Michael Polsinelli, DC On March 2, 2012 @ 2:29 pm In Food,Nutrition,Politics | No Comments
This week’s topic of the week [1].
Recently a new report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) came out telling us how dangerous raw milk is. After going to the Weston A. Price website, I find that they really manipulated the data.
Among the things that the CDC did:
Stop data collection in 2006. In 2007 three people died from drinking contaminated pasteurized milk, and 135 people got sick from a single outbreak of pasteurized cheese.
Blew milk related illness out of proportion: There are on average 24,000 food related illnesses reported each year, while only 315 are milk related (203 pasteurized and 112 non-pasteurized).
Used old data to increase the appearance of risk: The authors ignored a survey done by the CDC from 2006-2007 states that 3% of all dairy products consumed in the U.S. is raw. They used an old survey that states only 1%, and used this number to make the risk 3x as high.
Did not take population into account: Raw milk is available in the three most populous states (California, New York, and Texas). Because there are more people in these states, there is more of a chance of an outbreak in any type of food borne illness regardless of whether raw milk is legal or not.
Don’t get me wrong, I would not want to drink raw milk from a factory farm [2]. But I should be able to get it from local farms where the cows are pastured and treated humanely. If I can buy raw ground beef, I should be able to buy raw milk.
Raw Milk Warning – Unfair Cherry Picking By CDC, Says Weston A. Price Foundation [3]
CDC Cherry Picks Data to Make Case Against Raw Milk [4]
War against raw milk.
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[1] topic of the week: http://spinalalignment.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=32223f41048868cb54f0e290f&id=eaf9f92972
[2] factory farm: http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2007/06/dairy-farming/
[3] Raw Milk Warning – Unfair Cherry Picking By CDC, Says Weston A. Price Foundation: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/242162.php
[4] CDC Cherry Picks Data to Make Case Against Raw Milk: http://www.westonaprice.org/press/cdc-cherry-picks-data-to-make-case-against-raw-milk
[7] Raw Milk in PA: https://spinalalignment.com/raw-milk-in-pa/
[8] Food Drive raised 810 lbs of food: https://spinalalignment.com/food-drive-raised-810-lbs-of-food/
[9] Holiday Food Drive--Thank You!: https://spinalalignment.com/holiday-food-drive-thank-you/
[10] Food Drive 2010: https://spinalalignment.com/food-drive-2010/
[11] Food Drive --- Thank You!: https://spinalalignment.com/food-drive-thank-you/
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