Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.
For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”
“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”
Yep. I’ve told this story before but I’m turning into a rambling old man so I’ll tell it again. Several years ago I got into making my own cheese as a short lived but delicious hobby. It’s legal for me to go buy raw milk from farmers so I did. A lot of the people I ran into while getting it were absolutely bonkers q-nut types.
It’s more recent (2016), but Schitt’s Creek had an entire story arc around raw milk for an episode. It doesn’t get into the black helicopter crowd stuff, though.