> Take raw milk, (unpasteurised, unhomogenised) it wasn't that long ago
> that people could still buy raw milk from a few isolated dairies, but
> not anymore. Not now. Illegal to retail milk which has not been
> tampered with.
[snip]
> There's plenty of other things I can't buy as well. Like a toaster that
> lasts more than 12 months. So don't give me that crap about how markets
> give us all this choice, so far as I can tell it does the exact
> opposite in practice.
Boy, you folks in Australia must really be in a bad way. Here in the U.S.A. (the s**t-hole of the universe, I hear), it's not very hard to get unpasteurized milk if you want it, and all the toasters I've had have lasted way longer than 12 months.
(BTW, what exactly is the superiority of unpasteurized over pasteurized milk?)
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org _________________________________________________ "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer