Classic Stossel: Illegal Food

Increasingly, government tells us what we can and can’t eat -- bans on trans-fat, happy meals, “raw” foods.
California officials raided a raw food club, and arrested clerks for selling unpasteurized milk.
Farmer Joel Salatin, author of “Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal,” explains why Americans DON’T have the freedom to choose the food they eat.
A Classic Stossel from 2012
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[@davepost7675]

"Life is risky... you can die from it." Excellent quote.

[@SlowHippie]

"Life is risky... you WILL die from it." Excellent quote. Fixed it. Nobody gets out alive

[@nicholasplesko533]

Don't quote the guy, who takes a 17% risk of infection, when he drinks milk.

[@donhinkle3693]

@@nicholasplesko533 hey friend! You do you and I'll do me. Happy trails!

[@SlowHippie]

@@nicholasplesko533 If you are that concerned with death you do what you perceive as safe.

[@stansman5461]

@@nicholasplesko533 A risk ?? That's terrible! How dare someone take a risk!!??

[@dewrus2153]

As long as there is no deception and customers know what they are buying...I don't understand why there is a problem. Thanks for the great content!

[@iuyozx]

Yeah, like the menu disclaimer at on oyster bar.

[@trailblazer632]

They aren't listening to what the government tells them to do. They aren't under control. For the government that's a problem.

[@iuyozx]

@@trailblazer632 The government needs to remember it works FOR us, not against us.

[@trailblazer632]

@@iuyozx good luck with that. They lied to us the people, and to their comander in chief about the numbers of soldiers in the middle east as he was trying to remove them per the people's desire. What makes you think that's going to change any time soon when they willingly lied to the president let alone you and me.

[@bryceforsyth8521]

@@iuyozx Hasn't worked that way for a long time.

[@trixiemcfly8584]

The government needs to be significantly thinned out.

[@badassmother1426]

Eliminated.

[@chapter4travels]

There's the understatement of the year.

[@sanautin]

Absolutely.

[@appleslorri2012]

👍

[@michaelsweaney3890]

DEFUND POLITICIANS!!!!!

[@AdamKlownzinger]

“Life is risky, you can die from it” might be my favorite quote ever now. Such a good line to throw in the faces of people who think big government can fix every problem

[@Eganarc13]

My Grandfather had a farm when I was young. We would had fresh milk from the cows, no pasteurization, no hormones, no antibiotics. I never got sick from it neither did any of my family. Isn't it fun that we have more childhood allergies and illnesses in today's young than back in the good old days. The government does not know what is best for me and they are not here to rule me, they are appointed to a job to represent me aka they work for the people. Most have conveniently forgotten that!

[@jakeryan152]

Yeah like unpasteurized milk prevents kids from getting allergies. Also pasteurized milk lasts longer and prevents food born illness from forming after long periods of time like shipping. Many people live too far from farms for unpasteurized milk to be practical or safe.

[@VaultInteractive]

People are allowed to smoke stuff like cigarettes, a product that has been proven to give people cancer the most. Yet raw milk and other foods are banned in some states. Seems like a double standard to me.

[@Passafist333]

Corruption. It's all about where the money comes from.

[@jmalinowski1000]

Tobacco and marijuana are close to the same with the exception of tobacco will not get you high. I do agree, cigarettes with the 684 added chemicals are bad for anyone.

[@ThisManTriggeredMe]

Our ancestors smoked like chimneys. All of them did. You didn't hear about lung cancer until the mid to late seventies after government started dumping chemicals like formaldehyde into the cigarettes

[@MrLeebooher]

@@jmalinowski1000 Taxes babe it's all about what the Government gets off the top !

[@timh8324]

@@MrLeebooher And the big corporation lobbyists who try to keep others out of business because they can meet the regulations and the little guys cant

[@jaghad]

My trust in the government is at an all time low.

[@ChocolateHabanero22]

You should've never have had any trust in a horrible institution such as government to begin with....but I digress.

[@dasgoat76]

The US government is completely illegitimate. I look forward to Declaring Independence from it as our Founding Fathers encouraged us to do.

[@wayneaustin5533]

As it should be

[@indoorkite651]

A bunch of criminals sit around in a room and think of more laws that you cant break, all the while they break the most laws, and all too often their crimes arent simply illegal, their crimes are often vile and inhuman. That is the state of the United States

[@josedorsaith5261]

Uvalde brought that to the forefront for most Americans

[@HaIsKuL]

That little girl saying "You're silly." perfectly encapsulates it. When it has gone to the point of asinine absurdity, It takes a child that hasn't been brainwashed to deny reality to say the emperor has no clothes.

[@tinypablo4920]

She's so cute🤣

[@energeticstunts993]

@@tinypablo4920 she's really adorable xd

[@johngrey1074]

What's "silly" is letting that child get sick from Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria, etc., just because you're too ignorant to buy milk that's been pasteurized.

[@allananderson6343]

Sad that it's only a matter of time for her.

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

@@allananderson6343 we need to stop authoritarian indoctrination in public schools *NOW* or say goodbye to freedom forever

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

All my life I had problems drinking milk - bloating, burping, sneezing, coughing, gut aches, etc. Then, at age 45, I tried whole, fresh raw milk. Not only was the taste sublime, it didn't bother me at all. I felt great after drinking it! I live in Canada and it's illegal here too. (It's legal throughout Europe.) People can smoke and drink themselves to death, or gorge themselves on junk food every day, but we're not allowed to purchase raw milk. Legally, I can drink it if I own the cow - but my back yard is a bit too small!!

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

@bladwijzersync1883 - Really? Thanks for telling me. I'm surprise to learn that.

[@scottnewsham2496]

The government doesn't like anything they don't get their cut from. That's all it is.

[@fraydnot]

Just a reminder that Stossel loves asking logical questions and pushes governments button. Thanks for all you do!

[@Barskor1]

Government is illogical

[@trailblazer632]

@Jean-Simon Chénard that's kinda what would make him a good choice i think. The last person that you want to have massive power is the one that covets said power.

[@trailblazer632]

@Jean-Simon Chénard that's the catch 22 with the problem. The ones you'd want to be in charge don't want to be and you can't force them. Weird how that works

[@AmigaWolf]

@Jean-Simon Chénard No he would not, there are no good presidents, if that was so we would have no federal reserve, the biggest criminal organization there is, but they are made legal, and many more very evil stuff the government has there hands in. Illegality and legality are the constructs of the mind. And power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

[@GracUntoYou]

*May we all come to repentance and deny ourselves, carrying our crosses, following Him, seeking His face for a new heart, the creator and sustainer of life, the word made flesh Jesus Christ,AMEN* The Word Becomes Flesh 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him 2 Corinthians 5:21 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Walk in Love 5 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. Ephesians 5:1,2 4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-7

[@angelanderson4378]

“Life is risky, you can die from it!” Great truth, Salatin. Nobody is making people eat this food. The government should work so hard to combat actual criminal activity, like say, start putting people in jail for stealing from stores, or “mostly peaceful” rioters for burning down businesses, etc.

[@terryrose6208]

Excellent !

[@arinerm1331]

Sadly, I was only able to give this comment one Like. There are several MSM codeword phrases I'm sick of, "mostly peaceful protestors" topping the list. I was in a "mostly peaceful war" once. "The new normal" is another. If it's new, it's **by definition** not normal.

[@HomesteadForALiving]

Every government official needs to be put in jail first.

[@CncObsession]

Or entering uninvited.

[@AmigaWolf]

@@arinerm1331 excellent quote "If it's new, it's *by definition* not normal", i am stealing that quote from you, you don't mind tight?

[@hk3967]

The best journalist in America!!

[@carneeki]

Best journalism with the best moustache.

[@arkansaslibertarian5051]

Even if I don't agree with everything he's saying, he really is the best!

[@mrscott01]

Hes great but alexx joness is the best. Thats why he was banned from all social media yet still out does stossel getting 4 million views per day

[@DestinationJapan95]

Definitely isn’t the best, still has bias

[@markrestad9149]

I grew up on a dairy farm. I drank raw milk for 37 years with no problems.

[@kowalityjesus]

John Stossel and Joel Salatin: two American Heroes!!!!!

[@robosteveo]

So instead of requiring a simple label to designate what has been pasteurized and what hasn't. They would rather just raid farmers with their guns drawn. Because,,,you know.......milk.

[@Barskor1]

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent it is force like fire it is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. George Washington.

[@ChocolateHabanero22]

I don't think they should treat citizens like that whether you sell raw milk or smoke weed or crack. Just let people live life how they see fit.

[@trailblazer632]

Government fuxks up everything it touches. Period. Sometimes it takes a little longer but it happens EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Remember it took over 30yrs for manufacturers to redo the simple gas can after the epa got its greedy little fingers on it. And over that period how much more fuel was spilled than ended up where it was supposed to be? I know just for myself I probably spilled several gallons worth over that period because of those stupid cans. Why should I have to rip the guts out of a brand new nozzle or buy "water can spouts" to "illegally" put them on a gas can to avoid spilling valuable fuel?

[@davidcox3076]

Nothing preventing the buyers of the milk from taking it home and pasteurizing or otherwise treating the milk themselves. So long as the seller is honest that it is indeed raw milk. The label you suggest would seem to cover that.

[@Travybear1989]

My best friend in grade school's parents had a farm and I'd help milk the cattle regularly, there is nothing better than cow's milk, warm and fresh from the teat in all honesty. I've tried drinking the stuff at the store but it tastes like milk flavored water. Another thing is fresh, hormone free, grass fed beef burgers. I made two one pound bacon cheeseburgers out of some of that stuff three days ago and it was amazing! Sadly, I ate both of them and a solid pound of cheese curds on the side dipped in ranch dressing as well lol! Can't help it though, fried unpasteurized chesse curds in homemade ranch is the best. Sure I'm about 200 pounds overweight from eating the good stuff but you only live once.

[@stacypecora6219]

Grew up on a farm, never had pasteurized milk growing up. Large family rarely sick. We ate what our farm produced.

[@VideoArchiveGuy]

Yes, that's like saying "Mexicans don't get sick from drinking the water, so Americans can drink as much as they like." You likely grew up with increased resilience to the pathogens you were regularly exposed to that would make someone else ill.

[@mikemcmikemcyeahok4977]

You ate cow manure ?

[@markm0000]

You’re definitely healthier than 99% of Americans.

[@michaelsweaney3890]

The FDA is the enforcement mechanism to monopolize the profits of big pharma. CHANGE MY MIND!

[@markm0000]

@@michaelsweaney3890 Your comment is so on point when I go to check all replies it’s gone missing lol.

[@dirtcop11]

It is insane to "raid" a farmer's market with guns drawn. Do they feel threatened by people selling produce and raw milk? That is overkill, with the emphasis on kill. What would happen if one of these idiots is trigger-happy? Somebody gets shot over raw milk. That, in my opinion, is murder.

[@franklyanogre00000]

Feral hog problems require well-regulated solutions.

[@ChocolateHabanero22]

That's why I'm very uneasy when I see people flying blue lives matter flags and nearly worship Law Enforcement Agencies. Those same people will come for you, provided encouragement and support from tyrannical government "leaders".

[@neovenom9833]

at least it explains why LA has a high rate of actual crime, police too busy booking farmers.

[@UnclePhil1112]

This is why I laugh at those who say “back the blue”. If they think for one second the police won’t drag you out of your home, when the order is given, you’re just a naive fool.

[@francisdhomer5910]

Well you never know. They may try to kill one of those cops. You know hold them down and make them drink some of that milk.

[@user-or2eb7mn3u]

John Stossel was always my favorite part of 20/20 and I just like having his videos on in the background

[@spikedpsycho2383]

When enough people fall victim..... it's "Government where you at" If you get healthcare from government i.e. the taxpayer, Why cant we scrutinize your diet and health...

[@lynnhooley7608]

"Basic food freedom of choice, should be as important as the freedom to worship, speak, or own a gun" thank you for your patience we're working on those as you speak.

[@orppranator5230]

@@darrelnash4907 No. The point of healthcare is to account for the fact that some lifestyle choices aren't quite as healthy as others- miners breathing in coal dust for example, or office workers sitting for many hours a day and not exercising. Don't go down the road of discriminating against people for such things like that.

[@orppranator5230]

@@darrelnash4907 My point being, discrimination is bad. What happens when you start to have health problems and your rates skyrocket even further than they would normally, because all the other healthy people want cheap rates?

[@Alipotamus]

@@darrelnash4907 education is appropriate but not forced mandates. I have always worn seat belts once we were given them, before it was the law…BUT…I am so fed up with my free agency being whittled away that I don’t even want to wear it. I’m a conservative 73 year old great grandmother! Leave us alone.

[@darrelnash4907]

@@Alipotamus Yes, freedom!! I am a 72 year old grandfather. I hope my children and grandchildren see the light and bring this country back to its principles at its beginnings.

[@darrelnash4907]

@@orppranator5230 Guess what happens to your rates when you start making claims against your auto and home insurance?

[@Darkmattermonkey77]

This has been a thing for years. Raiding dairy farms that sell unpasteurized dairy is unchallenged and the few times it has been, the judge agrees with federal government rulings. It’s utterly insane that they have legislation to harass Americans who produce and sell healthy food.

[@gotgunpowder]

"healthy food" lmao raw milk literally kills people. and some of these idiots give it to their children. most "healthy" adults don't even need milk at all.

[@docwolfe77]

You really missed out on a great pun with udderly.

[@AmigaWolf]

That is one of the reason, the government and there people like big pharma and so, cannot make money from healthy people, and they want absolute power.

[@stevebrucken1944]

It's about power and greed for the government they want a piece of the pie and is that is the only reason because if it were not then why is alcohol and tobacco allowed

[@HaloDude557]

Big diary probably supports this. Greed and favoritism not incompetence

[@malgosiak790]

I grew up on my grandparents farm drinking raw milk, eating meat & vegetables. In those days you hardly heard of cancer or other sicknesses. Keep up the great work John 💚

[@espenopsahl8347]

He said people die from drinking raw milk. Btw heating up milk doesnt give you cancer

[@malgosiak790]

@@espenopsahl8347 What are you talking about? He was being sarcastic, please go & watch his video again🤦

[@DAVE_WHITE]

Exactly now the processed food giants control everything and all they are doing is making people sick..

[@oldgysgt]

In 1956 I got Undulant Fever, (also called Brucellosis) from drinking raw milk from an infected cow. At the time my parents didn't know some of the milk we were buying was unpasteurized. I almost died, and it took me almost a year to completely recover. Pasteurization was adopted to keep milk from infected cows from infecting humans. Before pasteurization Undulant Fever sickened and killed thousands of people world wide. Once medical science found the cause, and milk that was being sold commercially was pasteurized on a routine bases, Undulant Fever became rare in the industrialized world. My infection was one of those rare cases.

[@PridelessChickz]

I think heating up the milk actually just kills a lot of great nutrients, and that's why the government is against it.

[@foxboi6309]

"Life is risky, you can die from it!" This has to be one of the best quotes I've heard in many many years lol

[@Dngrov257]

My mother grew up on dairy farm. She drank raw milk throughout her childhood with no issues

[@watdafak666]

That farmer is the most clear-headed man I've heard speak in a while. Unfortunately, he's a grain of sand in a beach of downright idiots.

[@badassmother1426]

He has a You tube channel.

[@watdafak666]

@@badassmother1426 what is it?

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

Excellent metaphor

[@josephmoya5098]

@@watdafak666 Just look up Polyface farm

[@GM6.7]

If you go down the polyface rabbit hole you'll find all sorts of homesteading families and communities. It's awesome! I have gotten lost and enjoyed the knowledge. It's helped me decide that l want to raise my own food and harvest it.

[@kevinwallis2194]

Drawing upon 40 years’ experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practice

[@noone4479]

Less than mediocre quality. The nutritional value of todays food is less than 25% of what it was before all the chemicals used by the global farming corporations. Sad that they say GMO is healthier than organic or that organic is the least healthy option when it's the best option. Organic should be the only option.

[@sampletext9426]

@@noone4479 heh, laws make it so organic is only for the rich. Poor will have to eat these chemicals and big ph@rma can earn more moneu

[@brianwilke592]

and lots of salt, sugar, carbs and fat, not to mention artificial preservatives and flavor enhancers. Just remember, obesity is okay, and fat shaming is bad. Be sure to take your fourth vaccine so the fat people can be protected, though.

[@josealexi5141]

I love Joel Salatin. Funny & insightful!

[@jwenting]

and where I live (not the US) the government is now actively trying to get meat and dairy banned, FORCING a vegan (killer) diet on everyone. And not just meat and dairy, but anything containing sugar as well, including not just candy, pies, cake, and soft drinke, etc. etc., but fruit and fruit juice as well. The new "perfect diet" as presented by our "health ministry" 2 years ago consists of just grains, leafy vegetables, potatoes, nuts, and beans.

[@SunBrohan]

Books:"everything I want to do is illegal" and "folks this ain't normal" Both by Joel Selaton And both are very eye opening on how restrictive local and homestead food production is.

[@MatthewHolevinski]

I've been eyeballing those books for so many years now, but I can't bring myself to read them. I don't have the emotional, or constitutional fortitude for that awe inspiring level of depression.

[@SunBrohan]

@@MatthewHolevinski They both will make you feel equally as enlightened as upset but they're well worth the read.

[@salazam]

*Salatin and yeah I remember him from Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma

[@Ryan-is-me]

John Stossel is a great human being

[@bearvonsteuben9675]

Soldier on, Mr. Stossel. It’s a wackadoo world, and we need you. Thanks for all you do.

[@kennethbowers2897]

My son and I actually got around selling lemonade during the summer when the police visited us, we just told them the people we were giving it to were "friends" and that "they asked" if we could give them some, just got to play the word game. 👍

[@denisegaylord382]

That's crazy. Its insane that we even have to use such language gymnastics to defend ourselves and our children from that type of "government". That type of overreach and control, is not good governance, its tyrannical. It leads not only to the constant manipulation of our language, but also to the erosion of words meanings and clarity.

[@charlieodom9107]

You don't "sell" lemonade. You give it away and have a donation jar.

[@jfangm]

The permit politzie Karens in the neighborhood are to blame.

[@zarbaldearli7251]

Sounds like a backhanded bribe to me. And if you refused you would probably had guns drawn on you and on your way to the jail.

[@johnree6106]

Never used to be until a few people were stupid and called cols on 10 year old girls for selling lemonade and not having a business or health permit.

[@samuelb6960]

I often get headaches from my neighbors smoking Marijuana and have had to chase drug addics away from a jobsite because they were smoking meth 10 feet from where I was working. The government isn't doing anything to protect me from those dangers.

[@Chipwhitley274]

You mean the fictitious dangers in your head? What dangers did either of those drug users did you face? I call bullshit on your headache. Mind your business, stop getting worked up over the recreational activities of other people.

[@Travybear1989]

I know this skinny like 6'' tall 180 pound guy who is a vegan pot smoker that my brother hangs out with, guy is almost always smoking pot and eats avocado's/nuts all the time. Apparently he has been following such a lifestyle for a solid 10 years or something. The guy doesn't realize he is killing his lungs and will eventually die from not eating protein. Sure, he is buff now and healthy but protein is very important to the human body. Just the other day I ordered a grubhub from Sonic that consisted of 4 Sonic double bacon cheeseburgers, 4 cheese tots, and 3 large cheery limeades and he refused to eat his burger and tots despite me buying him and my bro one each. All hat guy ate over a 3 hour period was a fucking avocado!!!! I was cracking out the pizza rolls and ranch and he is babying an avocado!!???!! I literally think that guy is an alien.

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

@@Travybear1989 >eats avocados and nuts all the time >not eating protein

[@Travybear1989]

@@TheJacklikesvideos Vegans are crazy is all I'm saying

[@ericfrank4991]

Stossel, one of the few journalist left. Keep up the great work, the world needs you.

[@Eveatlv]

Thanks Mr. Stossel for all real news and points of view.

[@rudyando]

March 2010 visited Seattle with the inlaws and on our last Sunday I was reading the newspaper about the controversy about banning raw milk. I asked my father-in-law about it and he assured me growing up on a farm they never had anything but raw milk. Been curious ever since and now hearing government is trying hard to crack down on raw milk makes me want it even more.

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

whole milk is so good i imagine it's heaven from the tit.

[@animesock1671]

Gives you super powers

[@jdinhuntsvilleal4514]

I'm surprised you left out part of the argument FOR raw milk. According to my sister, who drinks it when she can get it, it's healthier because pasteurization also kills the GOOD bacteria that's in milk -- the bacteria that helps digest your food, for example.

[@cristiewentz8586]

Yes! Exactly.

[@JacobAnawalt]

I'm not surprised. He focuses on the harm of over-regulation and showing a more live and let live philosophy, not on supporting or opposing any one group's norms.

[@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n]

100% raw milk/ raw meat is the cure for all diseases research Aajonus Vonderplanitz the whole medical system is a joke

[@naejimba]

Exactly... and without it you can get C diff and die; I know someone who almost died from it. So if both have the possibility to lead to your death, then who are they to choose which one you are allowed to use?

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

Exactly

[@denisegaylord382]

I would love to see a full interview with Joel Salatin. I have read several of his books, and am trying to implement many of his commonsense techniques into improving my corner of the world. He and his family give me hope for the future of farming in America.

[@dudleyhaines9826]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. By Barbara Kingsolver.

[@FebbieG]

Same

[@mtevilone]

Thankfully here in Montana, we did away with most of the restrictions, especially on milk. Right now we are working on more local beef processing facilities, instead of shipping to be packers. I grew drinking raw milk, as did many of my generation and before. I am glad the option is available again.

[@cephasmartin8593]

I grew up on raw milk and I remember when Dad bought a pasteurizer. I was in the 6th grade. I'm 72 now so my days are numbered because I drank raw milk. My dad grew up drinking raw milk and died at 88 from emphysema ... no doubt caused by drinking raw milk as a kid. The cigarette allotment he was given during WWII had nothing to do with that.

[@lesliearblaster2711]

I always did like John Stossel.😊

[@Zzznorch]

1:45 While I am younger than John, turning 60 this year, I have been around long enough to see the massive erosion in our freedoms (just look at how much of Blazing Saddles cannot be shown now). The quote should be “this is the New America” 🙁

[@arkansaslibertarian5051]

Government? We don't need no stinking government!

[@Travybear1989]

Exactly, I eat a can of spam almost every day straight from the can, I eat hot pockets and pizza rolls daily, I like to have my daily Baconator with cheese and large frosty. Fuck being alive if you have to eat healthy crap, not worth living.

[@CampsitePyro]

Thank you John for continuing the good fight of showing viewers how stupid government overreach is!!!

[@miked3723]

If the world were full of John Stossels we wouldn't need John Stossels.

[@gheebuttersnaps2011]

Nah, if the world was full of stossels we would abolish government and have open borders. The whole country would be on fire in a week.

[@barroncohen295]

I’ve been to Joel Salatins farm for a tour with my school and it’s super cool. It absolutely changed how I see the environment and farming.

[@sd906238]

We went to Paris a few years ago and went to a grocery store. The milk (including goat milk) and orange juice was out on the unrefrigerated shelves. It doesn't bother the the French.

[@tammymercer6486]

I grew up on a dairy farm we drank our milk fresh out of the tank. Best milk ever!!!

[@TheRealJoeMama1]

I was horrified when I saw police draw their weapons in an unwarranted raid on a food co-op. What would have happened if someone stood in front of a cooler and refused them entrance? Would they have been shot? The government is truly out of control and drunk on power.

[@MissMarinaCapri]

The police are just the bully boys of politicians.

[@herculeholmes504]

The police ARE the Government - part of it anyway. It's a mistake to believe that police officers serve the people; they don't, they serve the Government. Sure, a police officer can be a nice guy, he might be brave, he might be helpful, but you'll seldom meet a police officer who is not an enforcer for the Government. That is why you see these "good men" drawing guns on people in situations that do not warrant guns being drawn.

[@gavinbarham542]

At least three comments removed from this.

[@MissMarinaCapri]

@@gavinbarham542 , I do seem to remember there was more comments on this. It’s interesting what comments were removed?

[@wandabanks6756]

And I noticed all the governments have this f*** you attitude

[@badassmother1426]

This entire video is a nuclear truth bomb. I wish John Stossel would do at least an hour video every day.

[@streetplaya3929]

If it was an hour of 10 minutes or less videos on different topics. ADD generation :-)

[@RASD87]

Love it, Stossel. I loved, "Give me a Break" and I find myself saying that phrase more and more.

[@ShankarSivarajan]

No one is going to give it to you, and you don't have the balls to take it.

[@cemersonrumseycnmaprn9002]

Keep the government out of our lives

[@sgibson4115]

Yes, my family has been using raw dairy products for more than ten years, and they’ve always been safe and clean. This is a fight over nutritious foods because the dairy industry isn’t set up to provide that to their customers. We have many small dairies who do the work of bringing a superior product to this grateful market. Then, we have the industry and the government insisting we all use their inferior products.

[@GM6.7]

The government just wants their cut by taxing it.

[@ChocolateHabanero22]

Yep. Crony capitalism at it's finest. Crush out competition with the government as your frontman. The free market can decide who will be victorious.

[@JudyJudyJudy44]

Please don't tar all of the dairy farmers with one brush ... they are just struggling to keep up with government regulations. What would you have them do?

[@GM6.7]

@@ChocolateHabanero22 corporations not capitalism.

[@Travybear1989]

I personally can't stand the raw crap. I've tried it and puked within a minute and never touched it again. Sorry, Processed is just better tasting, the end.

[@OmegaTou]

Joel Salatin is awesome. We need more Americans like him.

[@GM6.7]

Joel Salatin is awesome!! His message needs to be put into the mainstream

[@johngrey1074]

Nobody should care whether grown adults drink bacteria-infested milk. The problem is that many adults who buy raw milk will likely have their children drink it, and children don't know any better. If the laws are to exist, they should exist to protect children from these risks.

[@darinfonder1388]

Anyone who trades liberty for safety will have neither. Benjamin franklin

[@jamesmcd71]

Could not agree more. Also I've had raw milk almost every day for the last 50 years.

[@showmemo3686]

grew up on it. fresh from the cow. every night.

[@gotgunpowder]

And I've eaten broken glass for 20 years, so I guess that's not dangerous either.

[@johnnieboy66]

@@gotgunpowder dude c'mon...

[@mushypork2132]

@@showmemo3686 same, and raw eggs.

[@showmemo3686]

​@@gotgunpowder Sure you have. Sounds dumb. The milk we consume fresh from the cow is just that. Fresh. And the cows are healthy and the milking process is strictly regulated. The creameries who pasteurize and process the rest of the milk ensure there are no issues with the milk. My concern would be the amount of time between milking and the product reaching the end user and how the milk was stored. I think that's why the FDA comes down on the distributors. So my hemorrhoids are in better shape than yours.

[@stevebabiak6997]

Five year old girl: “you’re silly” Now tell that to the government. Because that five year old girl has more sense than the government.

[@galnhus56]

I like how Stossel plays devil's advocate with his questions.

[@52298datoyo]

That in the past was doing your job as a journalist, things have changed a lot

[@Razor-gx2dq]

its always good to see the other side, even if flawed

[@stevebojo4378]

As always John, brilliant.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I grew up on a Dairy farm and we got our milk right from the refrigerated milk bulk tank. It wasn’t pasteurized. I don’t remember anyone in the family getting sick from it.

[@poiluparadis]

Joel Salatin! The man, the myth, the legend!

[@THEMilkSHAIKH]

After the past 2 years, the CDC has lost all credibility.

[@elioraimmanuel]

I had a working relationship with a family who ran a real food coop in Ohio who was raided by the state! This was a large extended family living on a homestead, bringing real, Whole Foods to their neighbors. When the state raided they held the family hostage for 16 hours, threw the 16 y/o son down the stairs, wouldn’t allow the baby to have a clean diaper. The state confiscated all of the coop funds that were meant to pay the distributors along with ALL of the families personal food supply, all the meat they had slaughtered for the family and everything else!

[@dolphincliffs8864]

The Second Amendment should have been applied.

[@cateclism316]

This kind of "food tyranny" is unbelievable--and disturbing.

[@dustinabc]

Two of my heros in one video. Great!

[@FshHnt192]

Truth, logic and common sense, we need more of this in the world...

[@JKlein713]

As a deer hunter, if it ain't cold enough outside and you don't have a walk in fridge, you butcher that deer ASAFP. That's a rule I've followed for 40 years.

[@Travybear1989]

Why the hell hunt when I can just drive across the street and get me a triple baconator with cheese, a large baconator fries, a side of ranch, and a large chocolate frosty? Hell, I could drive one building further and get me a meatball and cheese footlong sub, another building over is taco bell which has grilled stuffed steak burritos you can order with extra guac and sour cream with a side of cheese sauce for dipping and they are the bomb. I've tried deer meat and it just tastes weird as hell too me, makes me sick honestly.

[@JKlein713]

@@Travybear1989 Everyone doesn't live within walking distance of a Wendys. Where I grew up if you wanted fast food Dairy Queen was 18 miles away. If you wanted McDonalds it was 30 miles away. Wendy's was 45 miles away, in another state. And its still like that. I grew up eating deer meat and I like it. It's lean and as free range as you can get. But thanks for the comment!

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

@@Travybear1989 you sound like you have some real healthy eating habits

[@benjammin5252]

I’ve never once gotten sick from drinking raw milk.

[@Phantom-darkness]

Same. And did for decades.

[@draidiansfather3382]

I never thought I'd hear about Rawsome on here. My family sold raw milk cheese through Rawsome (not sure I'm spelling that right) and to stores and individuals across the nation. The FDA came and put an embargo on our cheese cooler a while later, claiming to have found listeria in a piece of our cheese that they stole from Rawsome. We fought them for two years, but eventually couldn't go on and they hauled all of our product to a landfill. We asked to be allowed to just send it to a dog food plant so it wouldn't be a complete waste, but they refused. The really bad part is that the piece of cheese they claimed to have found listeria in was a flavor and size that we never sold to Rawsome, they waited two months to test the cheese when the legal time limit was two weeks, and they couldn't find a drop of harmful contamination of any sort, even after swabbing the drains. Even we were amazed that they didn't even find anything in the drains, but it was squeaky clean. None of that mattered. They had the bigger stick, so in the end, the threw more than $250,000 worth of cheese into a landfill and forbade us from using our plant to make any more.

[@mrletsplayit]

Unbelievable the power grab of not allowing people to sell or consume certain types of milk. Remember the days before pasteurization when people were dying left and right from milk? Me neither

[@NisaNJames]

I love that you eat lots of dove bars. Haha! Oh man, let's just educate and let people decide! Another great program.

[@timh8324]

The chocolate on them is too thin - haagen dazs are better.

[@timh8324]

@@darrelnash4907 Then you should only marry people with perfect health histories because I dont want to cover your kids if they might have something like diabetes or cancer in their history.

[@timh8324]

@@darrelnash4907 wouldn't that depend on what you think the meaning of life is? Everyone makes decisions every day some more risky than others. Is the goal to live as long as possible and try to focus only on health or is it to enjoy life in the best way we can?

[@nondescriptnyc]

….nice priority skills! In my hometown, our cops no longer handle shoplifters and the criminals are opening walking out with merchandise-and it is not fake news. Rite-Aid on 9th Ave in Hell’s Kitchen released a statement in reference to its closure, directly attributing their decision to shut down to the police’s unwillingness to assist in inventory control, and they even showed a video in which the shoplifters were stealing, right in front of cops. But, then, we have the resources to be targeting food coops and food banks to serve the poor?

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

this was recorded a decade ago but it's probably still pretty relevant.

[@honkingdonk3981]

I wonder what the cops are thinking when raiding the business for selling raw milk? What made them think it was necessary draw their firearms? The last words of the video "what'cha doin pigs?". Clever

[@marlenejaime1968]

John always covers issues that both the right and left can agree on. Great episode.

[@louisbrentnell2551]

That was a treat. Seeing Joel in a suit and sharing great information.

[@chapter4travels]

It must get confusing working at the FDA when everyone who works there is named Karen.

[@badassmother1426]

FDA is probably the most corrupt group of lowlife on earth. They make lawyers and politicians look legit.

[@Eledaraumar]

"Life is risky, you can die from it!" This guy, I like.

[@vmcmark7578]

I think that it should read like this..."Life is risky, you WILL die from it!"

[@stevenclayton333]

Keep it up John!!!

[@peterbrunsgaard2012]

Great topic John! 👏👏🙏🙏

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

Just the same thing with the whole cannabis discussion. It’s hypocritical that some things are legal and some which are as „harmful“ remain illegal. I as a grown up mature person must be in charge of what I eat and drink. This just wastes time and tax money and unnecessarily stresses the relationship between the citizen and the government because it’s affecting privacy so much

[@juiceboxxtm9848]

“Government is the best idea ever created” said no one ever.

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

This was critically informative. Thank you, John.

[@billmerovich3275]

Cops guns drawn..where you get that milk..

[@Barskor1]

I know you have been using boy that milk mustache is a dead give away now tell me who is your supplier and we can cut you a deal!

[@TheCreedBratton]

Stossel is the man! We need more like him!

[@ChristopherRyans]

Once again and always here Stossel pointing out things that need to be pointed out without regard to the repercussions from lobbyists and Big Time media because people like us can support him and show that this is legitimate

[@AngryCanadian1971]

John, this needs a massive, in-depth follow-up.

[@marcuschauvin7039]

Government has no business regulating food, guns, drugs, etc.

[@ExcelSpreadSheetUserWarrior]

what really dude? who will regulate which drugs will be on the market?? I think the US needs FDA.

[@satishkumarparida4797]

@@ExcelSpreadSheetUserWarrior you are underestimating your ability as a human being and your intellect. You think 100 people can decide what is good and bad for 100 million people.

[@realShadowKat]

@@ExcelSpreadSheetUserWarrior You and Marcus are talking about different drugs.

[@Barskor1]

@@ExcelSpreadSheetUserWarrior Ok The FDA's management is composed of people who every 3 to 4 years work as the management of drug companies food companies and medical device companies for 3 to 4 years and then go back to the FDA you literally have the potential criminals guarding against criminals or negligent behavior from companies that they have pensions with, the FDA is insanity.

[@ExcelSpreadSheetUserWarrior]

@@satishkumarparida4797 I can’t decide what Alzheimer’s drugs work better than the 100 experts that spent their whole life understanding beta amyloid plaques buildup. Ridiculous statement by you

[@insightoftheages5571]

We need to loosen up these these regulations so we can feed America.

[@badassmother1426]

Americans need to feed themselves. Move to a farm, get some chickens, plant a garden.

[@Promeethious]

Big fan of Joel. Great video.

[@coolbeans6148]

"The freedom to opt out" The only right that matters.

[@az3412]

I would love to see follow-up videos for some of these Classic Stossels just to see what difference (if any) has happened in the last decade or so.

[@nebula0024]

Excellent video. The topic of government butting in on our personal lives and how we make personal decisions for ourselves spans *many* different topics. You know how the milk "problem" could be solved? Slap a label on there. That would make too much sense, though. Id love to see you do a long-form video on this topic!

[@supertruther6046]

Growing Your Own Food is a Revolutionary Act

[@badassmother1426]

I would love to drink raw milk. I heard the milk that comes from the store in a jug is actually powdered. Not even fresh, I also wonder if it is cows milk, as ingredients list is missing from label, and nowadays anything can be called "milk".

[@cripplers8]

Same as collecting rain water on your own property which you pay taxes on. Overreaching Big Brother

[@cripplers8]

@@badassmother1426 raw milk is good drinking

[@Travybear1989]

To bad it tastes like shit compared to a triple baconator with sheese, sorry but never had a burger better then that in my life and im 33

[@richardbaker112]

Right on.👍

[@phillhuddleston9445]

"Whacha doin pigs" should be said to every cop that raids a business or home for illegitimate reasons, those reasons can be "lawful" or not lawful.

[@wolfgangandrewx2416]

peak insanity

[@troyh3628]

So it's basically like 90% of the other laws in this country. If you're taking money away from some mega corporation that bought a bunch of politicians then it's illegal. The corporations paid the government to make competition illegal.

[@sanniepstein4835]

That's it.

[@Hath.0]

The raw milk has always intrigued me. The fact that it's illegal and causes that type of response. The same people who ok and promote the highly processed "food", high fructose syrup and seed oils. Really makes you think.

[@CreamySpoon]

This is why I'm for one of the few things govt does that I think is beneficial: food labels. So long as people aren't getting deceived and they know what's in it, then people should have the freedom of choice in what they sell or buy.

[@Chipwhitley274]

You think the public is too incompetent to see the value in food labels? That they couldn't possibly make such a demand themselves? That they need government to explain to them what they should value, and mandate it?

[@CreamySpoon]

@@Chipwhitley274 You make a good point. However IIRC, that never actually happened. Mind you, I'm not asking for warnings and the like, just merely a list of ingredients.

[@Chipwhitley274]

@@CreamySpoon, IIRC That's because government intervened. Where does government get their foreknowledge? Aren't they made up of people? So why are the people in the public inherently unable to decide what they desire?

[@MollerFarm]

Joe Salatin is right here. LET the government label it...not criminalize it.