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Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say
(idahocapitalsun.com)
Nature, uh, sorts itself out
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I love that we can take this literally. The raw milk is potentially contaminated by fecal matter...
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If only there was long held scientific understanding of the health risks of raw milk, and the benefits of pasteurization. What a wonderful world that would be.
Maybe they can catch up to the 1890s.
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I bet their Facebook profile pictures had "I Have An Immune System" on them during the pandemic.
God I hate that smug bullshit. I still hear them say it even now.
I personally know some dumbfucks that are proud that they didn't get "the jab".
So fucking stupid.
And remember, every time you get COVID, still, to this day, it makes you stupider
You can take my gurgle raw milk from my violent gurgling cold hurp dead hurp ha- blwarrrgggghhhhh.
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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. 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.
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.
You can eat cookie dough if you toast the flour first and don't use raw egg.
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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!
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I live in Wisconsin. I was hanging out with my dairy farmer friend and for some reason raw milk came up and I mentioned it could easily make you sick.
This guy got visibly upset I remember and began telling me how wrong I was and that he knew better since he was a dairy farmer. I didn't press it but I knew that's the entire reason we pasteurize it.
Fuck you Chris you idiot 😂
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This is horrible.
I really wish the government would release some kind of guidance or documentation on the safe processing and packaging of milk so this sort of thing could be prevented. Really a shame that nobody does anything here, these poor innocent people probably had no idea their milk might possibly be contaminated....
oh wait...
So I have this book from the dark ages that tells you how to do a bunch of old timey farm things. You'll never guess what it says to do with raw milk: BOIL IT.
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About 4 or 5 years ago, my neighbor's adult children (and by extension my neighbor) got really big into the raw milk craze. For awhile, he'd mention all the benefits compared to store bought milk that's homogenized & pasteurized and supposedly it's those processes that make it unhealthy.
I don't remember exactly when they stopped talking about raw milk, but at some point that topic stopped coming up anymore. Then one day, my neighbor told me he was going over to his daughter's to drop off a gallon of (store bought) milk, and I replied with something like "I thought she only drank raw milk".
That's when he told me that the family stopped drinking raw milk a while ago after everybody got sick from a bad batch.
Anyway, I have had raw milk as a child one time when a local farmer dropped some off for us to try. I don't recall it very well since I was pretty young but I vaguely remember not liking it because it tasted too much like the way cows smell and it was thicker (more viscous) than I was expecting so there was a bit of "gross factor". I'm sure it wouldn't be gross if I had grown up drinking it, though.
Almost anything can be consumed "raw" if the entire handling chain is working 100%. The reality is - even without capitalism - germs can spread pretty easily, people can make mistakes, and contamination is inevitable. Once you add capitalist incentives to cut corners, go faster, and produce more.... it's a disaster waiting to happen. The more popular raw milk gets, the more dangerous it will be.
The absolute safest way to drink raw milk is to pick it up directly from a farmer that you know, and that has a very low volume farm, and is very educated on the best handling and bottling processes. Again... the types of farmers that will be selling such a risky product aren't the ones you want to be buying from.
Raw milk is lower risk if it is one or two cows, and only one distributor - like "I know a cow". That said, yer still gonna get sick from it eventually. cow poop and milk sources are simply too close together.
- a guy who knows a cow or two.
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This is the dumbest headline ever.
Same with all the measles outbreaks and all the AntiVa/AntiMa Karens during Covid. I swear, some people seem hellbent on self-harm. It'd be one thing if it was only themselves they were harming.
We built a world so safe and so protected that the "edgy rebellioius" thing to do is abandon all of that and sound trendy it seems.
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Who cares, honestly.
People do stupid things and bear the consequences.
In this messed up timeline where people dont want to avail themselves of basic health interventions and food hygiene theyre welcome to fuck themselves IMO.
Problem is these ppl have kids. I have no problem with adults killing themselves due to stupidity but it's another thing when they do it to their kids
They are potentially spreading disease (bacterial gastroenteritis). So, hopefully they wash their hands after pooing to contain transmission. Immunocompromised people that share a bathroom and other surfaces with them are particularly susceptible
Hoping that people so backwards about food hygiene would wash their hands after pooping is a big leap of faith...
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You’re not a true Patriot if your milk is pasteurized. What are you, some kind of blue haired, gender-confused libtard? Only bitches and minorities drink pasteurized milk.
Is what I would say if I wanted as many fascists to drink raw milk as possible
I remember in the early 70's as a young teen, I mentioned to a friends mother that I had heard that unpasteurized milk should be more healthy.
She went into an absolute hissy fit, about it being irresponsible and people used to get sick from that shit.
I guess that was when I truly realized that not everything you hear should be trusted. Not even when it's from people who claim to have special knowledge on a subject.
The "alternative" scene truly is full of bullshit and falsehoods. Be very very careful before following any advice from that kind of people, and NEVER trust them over solid science.
The Department of Health and Welfare didn't disclose the names of dairies in North Idaho and southern Idaho that are linked to the outbreaks.
I guess doing that would be "DEI" or "woke" or something.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22087610
The absolute drudgery of labor that was required before pasteurization is astronomical by today's standards.
Also raw milk and it's association with purity goes back a long way, and has other disturbing undertones.
https://brewminate.com/milkmaids-and-the-image-of-female-purity-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries/
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Oh No!
ANYWAY...
So the average IQ is going up... I see that as a win.
FAFO
Fafo
Back in my day we used to boil the milk for safety.
Oh wait ... they still do that.
Nice. I hope their collective dozens of brain cells have learned something.
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I wish the best for the poor kids, if any, who got sick from their abusive, dipshit parents; for the rest, I wish the bacteria the best in making better use of their brains than they ever could.
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