The MAHA Democrat

"In 2015, Polis, then a Democratic congressman from Colorado, dined on hemp scones and washed them down with a glass of raw milk. The point was to highlight the purported absurdity of the government's rules for what people can and cannot eat. He was pushing Congress to pass the Milk Freedom Act, a bill that aimed to make unpasteurized dairy easier for Americans to buy."

""Raw milk is relatively low-risk compared to many things that people choose to do in their everyday lives," he told me recently. "We should lean into freedom," he said, and allow "people to make their own decisions on what to eat." (For the record, raw milk can lead to serious cases of foodborne illness.) I spoke with Polis not just to ask him about unsafe milk. Few prominent Democratic politicians want anything to do with RFK Jr. and his agenda to remake American health;"

In 2015 Jared Polis, then a Democratic congressman from Colorado, ate hemp scones and drank raw milk to challenge federal rules on permitted foods. He pushed the Milk Freedom Act to make unpasteurized dairy easier for Americans to buy. Raw milk was then a niche item favored by some in Boulder. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. later embraced raw milk and publicly consumed it as health secretary. Polis, now Colorado governor, defended raw milk consumption as relatively low-risk and framed the matter as one of personal freedom. Raw milk can nonetheless cause serious foodborne illness. Polis differs from many Democrats in engaging with Kennedy's health agenda.

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