This is exactly how I felt when I first saw the Dove ads. If they ACTUALLY wanted to change the conversation, they'd say "oh guess what beauty is completely meaningless and totally unimportant." By simply saying "oh you are actually beautiful so its cool" it just reinforces the idea that beauty is everything!! Ugh.

This is so apt because i just finished a long (wine-fueled) mother's day dinner conversation about gender politics, with my partner, parents, siblings (all late 20's/early 30's) and nephews (7 year old twins). It was my mom and my sister and me who kept bringing the conversation around to our nephews/grandsons,…

Actually, I think it's considered the gov'ts job because of Upton Sinclair and the Wiley Act. ;-)

"The CDC warns against drinking raw milk, citing it as a cause of 148 illnesses and two fatalities from 1998 to 2011. Raw milk advocates say that, since 3,000 Americans die of foodborne illnesses every year, two deaths over a 14-year span seem to make raw milk a relatively low-risk cookie-dunking option."

Unless you can afford it. A moral position should have no place in pricing medicine. "Well, lung cancer treatment is more expensive because people with lung cancer probably smoked, so they brought this on themselves." NO.

And, again, $50 is nothing if you're Paris Hilton. It's a lot if you're poor. If you only want…

The generics are apparently still about $35-40. That's what I really don't get.

But EC is just levonorgestrel, which isn't new. The generic brands don't have to recoup R&D costs.

You and I have lived very different lives if you don't think $50 is burdensome/don't understand how it would be a hardship for a lot of people.

I have spent a lot of my adult life with less than (the equivalent of) $50 available to me. If I was in the US and needed to buy this pill within a couple of days and the next paycheck was a week away, I'd be fucked all over again.

There are many, many people from all walks of life who don't have $50 readily available. You can get an entire month of generic BC for half that cost so there has to be something aside from the cost of raw materials driving this.

If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you may not have that kind of cash lying around, even once a year. During my stint as an unemployed post-grad, I was making choices like deciding to pay my electric bill v. eating, and I know there are lots of people worse off than I ever was.

Your response is a bit of a non sequitur.

There's already been at least one case in another state where so-called "share owners" did sue a farmer after their daughter got sick from drinking raw milk; they argued that there was no way they could understand the risks. I lost track of the lawsuit, but owning a share certainly hasn't stopped people from suing.

The fourteen-year-old boy who would have grown up to be my mother's great uncle died from drinking unpasteurized milk. So I'm not a fan of totally dismissing the benefits of regulating milk.

Very little risk? Death is a big risk if you ask me. And it's only small because of the amount of people that consume raw milk. That number would greatly magnify if it were on the national level. As other commenters have said, Listeria is a pathogen capable of growing at colder temperatures.

I drank raw milk as a kid . . . that I personally extracted from the goat earlier in the day (I had the most ripped forearms of any thirteen-year-old I knew). This is a case of money being unable to buy the farm-living experience. Mostly I would consider the act of paying for a prime culture medium that has had time…

Wow! Please tell me you're joking. How can you make aged cheese without bacteria?

Can we keep pasteurized milk, and just start selling less homogenized milk?

Ha! Well I was referring to not using the butt brush or makeup on the face for hygienic purposes when they were more than likely going to lick someone's asshole:)