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Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say
(idahocapitalsun.com)
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Don't you have low temperature pasteurization in the US? It tastes basically the same as raw milk and has nowhere near the mailiard reaction impact that UHT has, meaning it should have basically the same nutrition as raw milk. Never understood the raw milk craze.
yes, but people listenign to RFK jr are unlikely to heed sanitary measures.
Yes. Yes we do. Same dipshits pushing anti vax are out here pushing raw tit juices. I say juices because what comes out of industrial milk farms is not just milk. Blood, puss, all that is in the raw as well. Like someone already said i feel bad for any children that were hurt by their abusive dipshit parents but for any adults they chose this. They went out of their way to get this stuff. You can't just buy raw milk at the local grocer.
Having blood and puss in milk is surprisingly OK. That's not an industrial problem, that's just biological reality. However the amount is very low and not a health concern. There are just as much of those components in raw and pasteurized. The problem is that in the raw milk the bacteria still lives on.
It's like how there is an acceptable limit to how many ground up cockroaches and mouse shits you're allowed to have in wheat flour. If the level is low enough and you don't eat the flour raw, there is no problem.
also the fact that people drink it straight form the TIT, or let sit ambient temperature for a while.
You saying I can't pack raw flour in my lip like chewing tobacco?
That would not be good. However the more common case of using raw flour is eating raw cookie dough. It's not safe.
its from the eggs which is often contaminated with samonella.
You can eat cookie dough if you toast the flour first and don't use raw egg.
Raw egg is fine, salmonella can live on the outside of the shell, but most eggs are washed before being packaged.
Oh, interesting. I thought it lived in the actual proteins. Do you have a source for that, btw?
Just my instructor when I took the Foodsafe course to work in restaurants. But I guess it can (rarely) get inside the egg. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/meat-poultry-fish-seafood-safety/eggs.html
There is the option of pasteurization as well, but that requires very precise equipment. I don't think a home sous vide machine would be accurate enough to properly pasteurize an egg. At least that's what I read a while back. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah but that tends to be because of the whole egg component, salmonella is a bitch.
It's both.
Pro tip for those that have the itch: You can buy edible cookie dough made from sterilized components
Careful. You might just accidentally start a new "raw flour" movement. It's better for your health! You can't restrict my freedom to eat raw flour!
This can be the new version of the cinnamon challenge. Yeah, go ahead, you are to eat at least 1 tablespoon of raw wheat flour every day, starting now. Clock's ticking!
isnt it trying to get high snorting cinnamon, nutmeg.
In the US, democracy means that "my ignorance is as good as your [low temperature pasteurization]".
Luckily, this particular case of ignorance will work itself out. I just worry about any innocent children who have to suffer as a result, but it will eventually work itself out...
What you’re suggesting involves too much science and not enough faith. Remember, we’re dealing with a special kind of moron here.
Americans never trusted the French and Louis Pasteur.
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