Louis Pasteur invented a revolutionary process that would, through the twisted designs of the FDA, insure that Americans would never again enjoy the taste or the full nutritional benefits of real, raw dairy ever again. This is the precise reason why you can't go down to the mom and pop dairy farmer and buy real milk. The food police would lock them up in the Gulag for selling unhomogenized, unpasteurized milk based foods. But pasteurization is a good thing, right? Sure, pasteurization has certainly saved the people a belly ache or few throughout the years. With the refrigeration technologies and bacterial testing that we are capable of now, there's no reason that we shouldn't have a choice. That's right! We, as a free country, cannot choose to drink or eat raw dairy. Unless you have a milk cow in the backyard or a rogue agent dairy farm (they do exist), you can never legally have the opportunity to enjoy milk in its natural state. 

Or eat real cheese.

Which brings me to the lecture at hand. Do you love Brie? That creamy, tangy wonderful Brie that is heaven with apples and pears. No you don't. I'm willing to bet, unless you have been outside the continental borders of the United States, you have never tasted Brie. An integral part of the Brie making process is that the dairy not be heated to more than 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Pasteurization of milk occurs at 166-170 degrees Fahrenheit. What you buy at WalMart is not Brie, regardless what the label says. 

The rest of the world treats cheese as artisinal. An alchemical treasure showcasing the best of what their land has to offer. We treat it as another industrialized commodity. There are kids in our society that think that cheese only comes out of an individually portioned plastic wrapper. And that's obviously better for you than raw cheese, because the FDA says so.

I don't know if Morningland Farms are right. I know that they're standing up to the FDA, which makes them allies. Their story certainly sounds legitimate. Government suits should not tell you what to eat. Personally, the two places I definitely don't want my government most is in my bedroom and in my kitchen. Especially when the same bureaucracy has encouraged this to transpire:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805