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I have no trouble getting access to raw milk cheeses in Chicago.
Would you have trouble if you had a picnic in Wisconsin and forgot to pack some ? http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/raw_milk_map.htm simonsarris kindly helped me out ( myself being in the UK )
The flipside of this are things like the banana regulation, more commonly known as Commission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94.[1] I believe it's now rescinded under ridicule but there are people who try to deny it even existed. It's well worth reading in full on eur-lex for riveting prose like "the measurement, in millimetres, of the thickness of a transverse section of the fruit between the lateral faces and the middle,…
battles over who has the right to make certain types of sausages What do you mean? There are people in England who think that the EU is going to ban British Sausages being called "sausages", forcing them to be called "emulsified high-fat offal tube". It was actually a joke from the political satire show "Yes, Minister" from 1984 (watch the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeDZtx3wUw ). There are a lot of eu…
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Brie de Meaux honks like stale feet anyway! Seriously, opened some up in the car once, big mistake, it stank for ages.
> Brie de Meaux honks like stale feet anyway! Not sure what your point is, it's still delicious. Also brie is not the worst smelling cheese by a very long shot. Maroilles is way worse and used in tarts (a common saying is that after you make a maroilles tart you have to throw out the oven). And of course they have nothing on (non-cheese) surströmming or hákarl
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> "What Europe did: Banned all forms of animal protein, including chicken litter, in cow feed in 2001." I think this came in the aftermath of the Mad Cow Disease that affected the UK in the mid-'90s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat... ). I know that UK does not necessarily mean Europe, but nevertheless, that was really huge no matter where in Europe you happened to live, it showed that a…
Prions absolutely terrify me. Primarily because they are so difficult to kill, er.. destroy. They are basically the zombies of infectious particles. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080701/full/news.2008.926.ht...
The most sensible European regulations of those listed in the article kindly submitted here are "What Europe did: Banned all forms of animal protein, including chicken litter, in cow feed in 2001." and "What Europe did: In the EU, all antibiotics used in human medicines are banned on farms—and no antibiotics can be used on farms for 'non-medical purposes,' i.e., growth promotion." I'd like to see the United States fo…
The way I see it, farmers should be leading the charge to ban non-medicinal antibiotics use in farm animals. The current situation is causing a tragedy of the commons. The commons in this case is antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Every individual farmer is better off if they use non-medicinal antibiotics than if they don't, but they're all collectively better off (along with the rest of us) if none of them do. In short, the current market is forcing them to act in ways that are bad for humanity. If I were a farmer, I'd seriously dislike that, and lobby for laws that made it possible to do the right thing.
4. Chlorine washes for poultry carcasses
the EU is currently looking at implementing something similar using substances such as ozone in solution or steam.
It's a big turn off to me to see these kinds of purely political articles on HN. I like my life somewhat compartmentalized -- I'd like to be able to discuss technology, science, and startups with people without getting dragged into "OMG the US government is bought by industry!"
These were banned in the UK in 1999. The EU has just brought in a law banning them, but a lot of countries are still not fully compliant.