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bigstrat2003 10 hours ago

Because free adults should be allowed to choose whether or not they want their milk pasteurized. Obviously it needs to be labeled so people can make an informed decision, but otherwise there's no problem.

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dmkolobov 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Free adults make decisions for children, and there is a long precedent( imo well justified ) of regulating decisions wrt to children: see vaccinations and mandatory schooling.

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lupusreal 9 hours ago | parent [-]

After the introduction of pasteurization, almost all adults freely chose pasteurized milk for their kids, without needing a law to force their hand.

If anything, the federal government trying to ban it has only made it more popular than it was before.

	▲	consteval 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, it was made more popular because of new technologies - the internet. The decentralization of information meant that idiots could be pastors. It's not just raw milk - we're seeing this populist phenomena with everything. Anti-vax, moon landing is fake, QAnon, flat earth, crystals, sacred geometry, and on and on. You tell people "The Establishment" serves one principal that's bad, but THEY serve an opposite principal, and you can get people to believe just about anything. There's a whole culture and subsection of society who believes things purely because they think it's contrary to what "The Establishment" wants them to think. They reject anything with evidence or backed by institutions - that means medicine, food, policy. This new-wave populism is fueled by our new communication technologies.

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Ferret7446 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps, but California generally doesn't look fondly on personal agency, especially on non-liberal topics like gun ownership/self defence, not participating in public education system, using gas vehicles, not getting vaccinated, etc.