Government tells Americans to stop eating cookie dough

From The Blaze.com (Dec. 8):

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued an order that millions of Americans will likely find impossible to carry out: stop eating raw cookie dough.

“Avoid raw or partially cooked eggs or foods containing raw eggs, such as cookie dough,” USDA advised in an email over the weekend.

Carrying out that simple 15-word recommendation would radically change millions of lives, from families who routinely bake cookies and invite the kids to scoop batter out of the bowl, to people who scarf down pre-packaged cookie dough, to everyone who eats cookie dough found in ice cream.

Simply put, it’s not immediately clear that America is ready to take on USDA’s mission. But it’s also unclear if it’s necessary — there is something of a debate over whether it’s safe to eat cookie dough, or whether the risk of getting salmonella from raw eggs is too high. [read more]

And while you’re at it stopping eating raw hamburger meat. Understand? And be sure you look both ways before crossing the street. And for God’s sake don’t run with knives! Finally, don’t talk with your mouth full of food.

This stupid PSA is like when they had instructions on TV a while back on how to use a microwave oven. I couldn’t believe it. How long has the personal microwave oven been around? Since the 1960’s? And now the gov’t decides do a info ad about how to properly use a microwave oven?

To paraphrase Herman Cain’s book—the gov’t thinks the public is stupid.