What is it with New Jersey?

I’ve got Sopranos on in the background, a Jersey colleague telling me how great The Clash are (they aren’t) and then I get an e-mail from another colleague who snapped this photo at a Jersey retailer.

As the correspondent noted, the sign states as a matter of fact rather than opinion that raw milk cheese tastes better, but alleges that pasteurization does not make cheese safer, kills bacteria that may not be there, and destroys vitamins A and D. Pasteurization was and continues to be a huge benefit to the public health. Vitamin destruction is minimal. Bacterial destruction is real and is necessary, even if some good ones go with the bad. … at the very least you should advise pregnant women, small children, old people, and the immunocompromised to avoid unpasteurized products.

Jersey is the train-wreck that is compelling to watch. Not Snooki.