Conglomerate's Christine Hurt was duped by a fake USDA website, MyPyramid.org, a spoof of the USDA's new MyPyramid.gov. I wonder how long it'll stay up - if it makes it all the way to an ICANN arbitration over the domain name, I'd be surprised.
Christine points out that "[t]he plan [the USDA site] spit out for me seemed reasonable, although I noticed it gave few substitutes for milk, although there are plenty." For those that don't know, milk is an extremely regulated industry. This site tracks milk regulation among the states. Interesting to note is the (by far) least restrictive state:
New Hampshire
Raw milk sales are legal:
- On the farm
- Through home delivery
- Through the final consumer purchasing directly from a milk pasteurization plant.
- At a boarding house provided that the milk is produced on the premises and the boarding house dining room displays a sign stating that raw milk is served therein.
Even though a state statute permits the sale of raw milk in retail stores, the Department of Health and Human Services prohibits this because of a New Hampshire administrative regulation that requires food service establishments and retail food stores to sell only pasteurized fluid milk and fluid milk products.
Raw milk producers who sell less than an average of twenty quarts of milk per day do not have to obtain a license from the state. They are not subject to state inspection either unless they sell to a milk plant.
Unsurprisingly, this is also cited by the Free State Project as one of the many benefits of moving to New Hampshire .