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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 64 points 1 year ago (76 children)

Am i seeing this right, that you can buy raw milk in grocery stores? What the fuck?

Raw milk gets bad way to fast in order to sell it in a grocery store.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine deliberately paying a premium for food that can make you seriously ill.

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[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When kept below about 3C raw milk can last 7-10 days. The problem mainly is in the handling - the longer it's shipped and more it's handled the higher the likelihood it ends up above safe temperatures, reducing that time significantly. And we've all seen how grocery stores handle their perishables... LOL.

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Filthy farming practices don't help.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Filthy farming practices don’t help.

No they don't. And that applies universally.

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[–] duramu@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe it has to be bought at the farm but they still do commercial packaging

That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought, that so many people buy raw milk, that its profitable to do commercial packaging.

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it like a new thing? I never heard anyone making a fuss about raw milk other than like the Amish for the quarter of a century I've been around.

It seems to be based around the people who just look for problems to have, like okay when are people gonna start drinking bottled puddle water because "its got natural minerals and bacteria" or some nonsense.

[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Raw water was a thing. Not sure if it's still a trend but it definately happened.

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that just like Fiji water type brands where they just "fill the bottles with natural spring water" when it's just coming from some basin?

[–] xnavy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Here's the link to the Cleveland Clinic article about the raw water trend: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/raw-water

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Doesn't it last 5-7 days? In Europe it is long enough.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People like my boomer mother will buy a gallon of milk and expect it to be good for 2+weeks.

She is part of the reason I do a small shopping every couple days and only buy what I need for the foreseeable future. An entire generation of Americans that are used to everything being so pumped with preservatives that we can eat a Twinkie that rolled under the couch last presidential election.

Yet, we have to scrub eggs of their natural coating at the farm, requiring them to be refrigerated.

Food regulation in the US hasn't moved very far from the 60s.

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