He was selling across state lines. He's in Pennsylvania; the person who died from his contaminated dairy products was in Florida. That's why the federal government got involved. Interstate commerce is regulated.

You can buy raw milk in many states, but you can't ship it to another state.

I'm perfectly okay with all sales between states being regulated. Otherwise things could get really nasty, really fast. You only have to look at the history of food and medicine regulation to know why.

Source: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2016/07/inspection-of-millers...

Your Amish farmer killed someone with his natural milk:

> It all started in 2016, when two listeriosis illnesses that occured in 2014 were traced back to raw milk sold by Miller’s Organic Farm. Both infected people had to be hospitalized, and one tragically died from the illness.

These requirements exist to reduce the likelihood of people dying from the food they consume. We do not have the same patterns of consumption as "the good old days" making some types of untreated produce much more dangerous. We also have greater expectations regarding how many people we expect to die from food related illness.

Hardly the point. You should be allowed to take risks. Also did he really kill the person with milk? This makes it sound intentional, I highly doubt it.

I'm sure the dead person's family is put at peace by the Amish farmer's intention. He didn't mean to kill him—he just didn't follow food safety procedures that were established for the specific reason of preventing illness and disease.

If you want to take risks make your own raw milk or fresh meat. Once you're selling food you have some liability where not killing your customers is concerned.

> Hardly the point. You should be allowed to take risks.

Sure, but society has largely decided that you shouldn't be allowed to take risks with other people's lives. I'm perfectly happy for you to squirt milk into your mouth straight out of the udder for as long as you like. I'm not happy to allow charlatans to lie about how much healthier and safer it is than pasteurised milk while selling it to people who don't know any better.

> Also did he really kill the person with milk? This makes it sound intentional, I highly doubt it.

I might agree with you if the man had changed anything after finding out that his milk had lead to multiple hospitalisations and a death. Unfortunately I can't as that wasn't the case:

> "They use it as a medicine," Miller said in a 2021 interview. "It’s very healing to the body because it’s raw."

Given the context I find this statement repugnant. Profiting from the sale of food while refusing to follow food safety regulations and actively hampering their enforcement is exactly the kind of sociopathic behaviour that institutions of correction should be dealing with.

Should we ban sushi or raw seafood?

We have very specific regulations regarding the storing and preparation of raw fish. Just like we do for raw milk and other foodstuffs that can kill people. Some might find the "red tape" annoying, but it's why we've all but eliminated, for example, botulism deaths

But you're saying raw milk shouldn't be consumed. Though raw fish is fine?

The sale of untreated seafood is banned most places. The vast majority of seafood will have been processed by freezing it below a specific temperature for at least the required length of time. Sounds a lot like cold pasteurisation to me. Exemptions typically seem to be granted for seafood not susceptible to problematic parasites/bacteria or where it will be cooked by a facility shortly after it arrives.