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On the pretest of a little girl got a tummy ache from eating cheddar cheese, the FDA has for the use of wooden boards to age cheese.
What this means is that Big Food can push Big Cheese as it is highly processed without the use of wooden boards.
First they came for the cheesemakers....
I also note that the "mediocrity" aspect emboldened in the quote is a perfect metaphor for Big Government Progressivism which seeks to make us all equally poor (expect of course for the privileged elites who will still get their brie).
From Walter Olson at Overlawyered, the FDA has interpreted the Food Safety Modernization Act to preclude the aging of cheese on wood boards. Much as you may not think this touches your life, it does if you happen to enjoy any better cheese than velveeta. From CheeseUnderground:
A sense of disbelief and distress is quickly rippling through the U.S. artisan cheese community, as the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced it will not permit American cheesemakers to age cheese on wooden boards.
And, one would presume that this also means cheeses aged in France on wood boards wont be allowed into the country. There will be mass cheese seizures at the border, with camembert dumped into the Atlantic like bales of marijuana. ...
(snip)
So what if our attempts to rid our childrens world of microbial pathogens has given rise to supergerms, antibiotic resistant bacteria that cant be stopped? Rather than have them wash their hands in antibiotic soaps, we would do better to let them eat dirt, build up the normal resistance to the world around us, and strengthen their immune systems so they wouldnt have to be sheltered and bubble-wrapped.
There is a price to be paid for having fine cheeses, or any number of other foods, drinks, things that humans have come to value for their wonders over the centuries and millennia. They may not be laboratory perfect. There is a potential, given the information that modern science provides, for harm, even if it can largely be avoided by a bit of effort. Still, the potential exists, and there may well be the occasional outbreak. It can happen.
The alternative is to live in a world of tasteless sanitary perfection. Every effort to eliminate any possibility of harm brings us closer to assured mediocrity, where humans will only be able to taste flavors made in labs and designed to meet the expectations and demand of the lowest common denominators. Sugar and salt will pretty much cover it all....
Cheeseboarding | Simple Justice
What this means is that Big Food can push Big Cheese as it is highly processed without the use of wooden boards.
First they came for the cheesemakers....
I also note that the "mediocrity" aspect emboldened in the quote is a perfect metaphor for Big Government Progressivism which seeks to make us all equally poor (expect of course for the privileged elites who will still get their brie).
From Walter Olson at Overlawyered, the FDA has interpreted the Food Safety Modernization Act to preclude the aging of cheese on wood boards. Much as you may not think this touches your life, it does if you happen to enjoy any better cheese than velveeta. From CheeseUnderground:
A sense of disbelief and distress is quickly rippling through the U.S. artisan cheese community, as the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced it will not permit American cheesemakers to age cheese on wooden boards.
And, one would presume that this also means cheeses aged in France on wood boards wont be allowed into the country. There will be mass cheese seizures at the border, with camembert dumped into the Atlantic like bales of marijuana. ...
(snip)
So what if our attempts to rid our childrens world of microbial pathogens has given rise to supergerms, antibiotic resistant bacteria that cant be stopped? Rather than have them wash their hands in antibiotic soaps, we would do better to let them eat dirt, build up the normal resistance to the world around us, and strengthen their immune systems so they wouldnt have to be sheltered and bubble-wrapped.
There is a price to be paid for having fine cheeses, or any number of other foods, drinks, things that humans have come to value for their wonders over the centuries and millennia. They may not be laboratory perfect. There is a potential, given the information that modern science provides, for harm, even if it can largely be avoided by a bit of effort. Still, the potential exists, and there may well be the occasional outbreak. It can happen.
The alternative is to live in a world of tasteless sanitary perfection. Every effort to eliminate any possibility of harm brings us closer to assured mediocrity, where humans will only be able to taste flavors made in labs and designed to meet the expectations and demand of the lowest common denominators. Sugar and salt will pretty much cover it all....
Cheeseboarding | Simple Justice
