{"id":181814,"date":"2016-03-10T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/10\/lawmakers-in-west-virginia-pass-a-bill-legalizing-raw-milk-and-toast-their-success-with-raw-milk\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:24:00","slug":"lawmakers-in-west-virginia-pass-a-bill-legalizing-raw-milk-and-toast-their-success-with-raw-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/10\/lawmakers-in-west-virginia-pass-a-bill-legalizing-raw-milk-and-toast-their-success-with-raw-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers in West Virginia Pass a Bill Legalizing Raw Milk, and Toast their Success With Raw Milk\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then they proceed to <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2016\/03\/09\/wv-lawmakers-legalize-raw-milk-drink-raw-milk-get-mysterious-stomach-bug\/\">make the state house resemble the sets in <i>The Wild Bunch<\/i> if the film had been directed by John Waters instead of Sam Peckinpah<\/a>:<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In West Virginia, farmers and fans of raw milk celebrated this week as the governor signed a bill that, among other things, legalizes the sale of raw milk to consumers. Some delegates celebrated by drinking cups of raw milk from a local farm, or at least tasting it. Some of them are now sick with a mysterious gastrointestinal illness. Is it a coincidence or deep irony?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Cadle himself was out with a stomach bug on Monday, but he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsaz.com\/content\/news\/Anonymous-tip-claims-raw-milk-caused-illnesses-at-Capitol-371487251.html\">and others<\/a> point out that a similar illness had been circulating around the state capitol building for weeks. \u201cIt ain\u2019t because of the raw milk,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazettemail.com\/news\/20160308\/agency-investigates-lawmaker-who-distributed-raw-milk-to-celebrate-bill-passage#sthash.ZF2G2DJ7.dpuf\">he told the Charleston Gazette-Mail<\/a>. \u201cWith that many people around and that close quarters and in that air and environment, I just call it a big germ.\u201d The illness includes diarrhea, vomiting, and a fever, and sounds like our old fast-spreading pal norovirus. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Health officials are investigating the milk incident. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just too perfect.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not my bon mot.  I adopted this from Paul T. Riddell essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/shitter.shtml\"><i>The Attack of the Mad Sh%$ter<\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then they proceed to make the state house resemble the sets in The Wild Bunch if the film had been directed by John Waters instead of Sam Peckinpah:* In West Virginia, farmers and fans of raw milk celebrated this week as the governor signed a bill that, among other things, legalizes the sale of raw &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,960,1020,1150,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-irony","category-legislation","category-public-health","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}