It’s easier in America to buy a gun than French cheese

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It’s easier in America to buy a gun than French cheese

by John Aravosis at America Blog

http://americablog.com/2012/12/is-it-easier-in-america-to-buy-a-gun-than-french-cheese.html

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Two people died over fifteen years from eating raw milk cheese. Significantly more died over that period from guns, about 450,000 people (that includes suicides, but hey, we don’t let people intentionally kill themselves by eating French cheese, so why allow guns?).

In the end, I couldn’t confirm that any of the cheeses listed in the graphic above are actually “banned” in the US, because there are versions of them – with pasteurized milk or aged over 60 days – that are permitted for several of them (I didn’t check them all). The graphic indicates, for example, that French roquefort (i.e., blue cheese) is not permitted into the US. That’s not true. You can buy the French “President” brand blue cheese in the US – I have. The same goes for the graphic’s mention of Camembert. Obviously, the American versions are either pasteurized or aged over 60-days.

Now, the graphic would be correct if it got a little more specific and, say, added an asterisk noting that the original, “true,” raw-milk-aged-under-60-day versions of these French cheeses are banned in the US. So try this:

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