The sad thing is that in the US they might very well be able to stop paleo except for people that can hunt and forage. It likely will get more and more difficult They have been quite successful at outlawing raw milk which then made Johanna Budwig's exceptional cure for cancer very difficult - to say the least - which seems crazy to me - so I can easily imagine raw meat being outlawed if it becomes something that people start to eat raw. The FDA told the man I met yesterday that raises his own grass-fed cows that he makes into hamburgers at his hamburger joint here in town that if he cooked a burger "rare" he had to get every customer who buys one to sign the receipt and then he had to keep that receipt for THREE YEARS or he can be closed down.
They outlawed many raw foods as a matter of fact. They might be successful at pasteurizing all eggs in the near future. They have made it almost impossible to get raw almonds and soon you might not be able to get any raw nuts. They made raw peach and apricot kernels illegal except to be sold for cosmetic use. Almost all fruits that are imported to this country are irradiated. They are now trying to pass laws where it will be illegal for you to save seeds from your own plants. They work at entrapping small farmers and any vendor. They set up sting operations to make examples of the small fries so others won't try. They went after an Amish farmer because one of his young daughters took some money for raw milk even though not one person ever got sick from that farm - if anything they were the spitting images of health - and they only had a small group of people coming to the farm for milk.
All it would take, I think, is for a large enough quantity of people claiming to be cured of cancer and never feeling better in their lives by eating raw meat and then one person (maybe even paid to say it) saying they felt sick from eating some raw meat - for suddenly no one in America to be able to buy raw meat in a store again. It could all be processed with some chemical or be flash-pasteurized.
Think about how hard it is to buy grass-fed animals or to get free-range eggs. The reason most Americans can't get raw milk is because if people were able to get it - soon the big dairy businesses would not be able to compete with the quality so the big businesses use their big bucks to squash the small guy any way they can. It happens constantly. What a fight there is here in Texas. And - the cattle industry is very strong here so if they think that natural grass-fed cattle is gong to steal the business from their feed-lots and the only way they can fight it is to make all meat toxic by law - you can bet they would use their MASSIVE power, connections, money and powerful lawyers to achieve that - quickly and easily.
Ok - so I'm a cynic - but I've been watching this whole thing for too long. I can't believe how fast our supply of decent food is being destroyed in front of my eyes. So even if a cure is based on being able to get decent food from a store...... I don't keep it as part of my list of cures that they can't outlaw. The small group of paleos are better off actually NOT being too mainstream, having gurus and big press or too many people realizing its power. Sad - so sad - but I think it's true.
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