We are not living in a free society despite what the spin doctors try to tell you. This is an excellent article which outlines that corporate greed motivates the control of food handling and it has very little to do with food safety.
Classic case in point is the pasteurisation of milk which basically destroys the life giving properties of milk and renders it a harmful substance. Harmful bacteria counts in the milk of healthy pasteurised cows is in fact lower than in pasteurised milk. Its like the good bacteria in your gut. If you have a complex gut with thousands of varieties of bacteria the good bacteria control the growth in population of harmful bacterias.
Pasteurisation is basically a way of treating adulterated milk so that it won't kill you. It also enables bad milk from sick, barn fed cattle to be hocked off to the public. In a farming situation today there is no incentive to produce high quality milk because it all goes into a big vat along with all the adulterated milk where it is then cooked to kill off all the beneficial enzymes and bacterias along with the bad bugs in the poor quality milk.
Then the same multinational companies which destroyed the good bacteria in the first place then artificially put them back into the yoga with a monoculture soup of acidopholos and Lactobacillus. So tens of thousands of varieties of good bacteria which produce a healthy gut in the human are killed and only 2 strains are injected back into what is largely a lifeless and sterile product.
Deregulation would provide incentive for farmers to produce high quality unadulterated milk. It would also enable the production of an array of delicious and nutritious milk products which are available in Europe which cannot be produced using pasteurised milk. The reason the industry is not deregulated is, as the article explains, to protect the interests of large dairy corporations who control the pasteurisation of milk and the distribution of milk products.
Fear tactics are then used to control the population so that they will not challenge the dairy companies. Food safety becomes the cover to hide the underlying corruption of the market. In fact despite the lauding of food safety the system instead produces an unhealthy product and prevents the distribution of a wonderful healthy product.
This fiendish behaviour occurs at every point along the food distribution chain in almost every food product. So we can see that we are not a free and liberated people at all. If we really want to be free then we should choose a difficult but healthy lifestyle in the country where self-sufficiency. Do you know I have never drunk real milk in all my life but I have a friend who grew up in the remote country whose family had a cow and he describes the taste of milk straight from the cow as being heavenly. How do you put a dollar value on home grown food and produce and the quality of life it imparts.
For some interesting resources here is an action group I am involved with which is associated with the Weston Price foundation mentioned in the article.
http://www.realmilkaustralia.comand another site to show the harm which conventional milk products are causing to our health
http://www.notmilk.com/ Admittedly this site is very biased but it is still an excellent source of information to demonstrate the harm that milk products are causing to our society. The other problem with this site is that it fails to make any distinction between raw milk from pasture fed cows in a small community setting and pasteurised milk in a large factory multinational setting.