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Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous. (kffhealthnews.org)

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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Back in my country, I drank raw milk my whole life and I'd never had an issue. It was sheep milk, not cow, so it could be different. Literal raw milk straight from the udder to the bowl to my stomach. I'm ok with raw milk as long as it's coming from what I raise. Not gonna touch it from a bottle at Walmart god knows where it came from and ~~now~~ how much shit it went through. Plus, all these farms owned by huge corporations feed their cattle shit. So, no thanks.
Edit: to clarify a little more for some folks who might have misunderstood my point. Raw milk in and of itself isn't and shouldn't be harmful at all. It's the condition you put the animal in, the food you feed it and the way the milk is being served that kills people. Our animals were never in cages, they roamed in "god's earth" as some say. They grazed whatever grass came out of the ground and they drank river water. We'd never fed them anything they weren't supposed to eat. We weren't in a hurry for a "profit" to sum it up, we were just living normal. So we didn't have to do shit that would cause chaos. Hope this makes sense. Also, this comment wasn't meant as political at all, just something I got reminded of when reading the post

[-] dumples@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

It takes time for the microbes in raw milk to grow to become dangerous. So drinking it on your own farm with your own cow isn't an issue since there is no time for them to grow. Any processing adds time which gives bacteria more time to grow. For a reference, in ideal conditions E. coli can double its population every 20 minutes.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Although this is anecdotal evidence I think you have a few good points. I'd be willing to let the practice be more common as long as the product stayed local (within the county) and the cows were kept in specific conditions (not shoulder to shoulder 24/7). The data regarding this is very small so I wouldn't want stuff to start being transported hundreds of miles until there's some kind of established safety record.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Agreed 100%. And it is 100% anecdotal. Certainly my personal story. Grew up a framer and herded over 400 sheep back home. Had 2 horses and over 10 dogs. We had a huge land (my family still does back there now). That was our main breakfast. Raw milk and home made bread my mother made. Not sure why some folks are upset about it and started downvoting. lol. Other nations and other cultures do exist, and it's not all just the USA.

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

The good news is that drinking raw milk will disproportionately kill conservatives. Every dead conservative is a net win for society.

[-] Shawdow194@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Ehh let em reap the rewards. Like not wearing masks during covid 🤷‍♂️

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Good analogy, actually, since masks both reduce the risk to the wearer and reduce the risk of the wearer spreading whatever they're carrying to those around them.

Unfortunately raw milk can be a vector for avian flu and if (when) it achieves human-to-human transmission, these people will be vectors.

[-] Shawdow194@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

They are vectors for a lot more diseases than that...

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Milk is dangerous.

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

Oh nooo.... Don't drink dangerous things against advice

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They are voracious readers and consume a large amount of testing data, let the option be there, they are capitalist so the market will cull the product if its not wanted/needed.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

voracious readers

Uh. yeah of facebook misinformation

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Hey now, you also need to know they listen to vloggers on youtube and twitter too, see they are using a wide variety of sources, and I am sure they checked their sources on the subjects.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

/s?

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I am just going on what they say. They have done the research

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

So have they told you what sources they have read?

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You know they never can cite them, they just say they do. I always found it odd, but I always thought maybe the teachers were failing them in comprehension and citations. But who am I to think they would bold face lie on the internet to make themselves seem like something they had every chance to be but just couldnt get off their ass to be that.

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