So, how much would you pay to make sure your neighbor doesn't drink milk or cream in raw form, i.e., non-pasteurized or homogenized? How much? A few bucks a month? No? I guess The Girly-Man Governor thinks otherwise, having recently vetoed popular, bi-partisan legislation (SB 201) that has the effect of making it even more difficult (AB 1735) than the already ridiculous level of compliance California's two raw dairies had to go through in order to sell raw milk products to the 40,000 Californians who already enjoy them and have been enjoying them for years. I drank both raw cow milk and goat milk as a kid, and we made various products like butter and cottage cheese ourselves. We didn't need anyone's help, especially not from a girly-man (pdf). I am returning Senate Bill 201 without my signature. This bill weakens food safety standards in California, something I cannot support. Translation: it removes onerous, unreasonable "safety standards" designed for pasteurized milk, lobbied for by Big Dairy in California. [...] Based on fears with no basis in fact... Now it ought to be the plain obvious truth that the baseless fear-mongering taking place is and has always been the hysterical fear...