Jun 18, 2022·edited Jun 18, 2022Liked by The Word Herder
This reminds me of the troubles the cheese nun had with an FDA inspector. (probs a youtube doc I saw) She won eventually, to be able to use wooden vats and hand methods to make the cheese. The nun is also a microbiologist. The science that was done around the case revealed that the many microbes embedded in the wood ENSURED a healthy balance of desired cheese microbes, whereas the stainless steel vats typically used actually allowed for dangerous bacteria to more easily proliferate. They tested by purposefully infecting both the wood and metal vats of pre-cheese with the bad bacteria. This test proved the wood vat cheese was safe, actually safer, and oh so much better tasting to boot I bet. So just like in politices, and all of nature, 'badness' grows in a 'perfectly clean environment' (read vaccuum), and many balancing forces (read microbes) keep badness in check. Life.
Fire everyone at the FDA, and replace them with organic farming minded folks.
Just one more example of the obscenity that is capitalism.
This reminds me of the troubles the cheese nun had with an FDA inspector. (probs a youtube doc I saw) She won eventually, to be able to use wooden vats and hand methods to make the cheese. The nun is also a microbiologist. The science that was done around the case revealed that the many microbes embedded in the wood ENSURED a healthy balance of desired cheese microbes, whereas the stainless steel vats typically used actually allowed for dangerous bacteria to more easily proliferate. They tested by purposefully infecting both the wood and metal vats of pre-cheese with the bad bacteria. This test proved the wood vat cheese was safe, actually safer, and oh so much better tasting to boot I bet. So just like in politices, and all of nature, 'badness' grows in a 'perfectly clean environment' (read vaccuum), and many balancing forces (read microbes) keep badness in check. Life.
Fire everyone at the FDA, and replace them with organic farming minded folks.