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Re:‘Too much’ nitrite-cured meat brings clear risk of cancer... by luxuryballs on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:59AM (#34163001)
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.
Re:‘Too much’ nitrite-cured meat brings clear risk of cancer... by drekk on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:56PM (#34165834)
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.

Re:‘Too much’ nitrite-cured meat brings clear risk of cancer... by Jochim on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:39PM (#34179066)
> 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.