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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

its because it is dangerous.

There's literally no point in selling non pasteurized milk, unless you want to waste money and cause potential health issues.

Literally all pasteurization does is heat up the milk, moderately, for a short period of time, and thats it.

It's more cost effective to do at scale, it's easier to regulate, ensuring consumer safety is easier, and ensuring that something happens if your dumbass doesn't do it properly, can also happen. The only reason you shouldn't do this is if you want to pasteurize your own milk, for some reason.

Maybe if you hate having free time, and need more responsibilities you should go synthesize your own fucking motor oil. Not pasteurize milk.

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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 51 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Let them get their raw milk then?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Kids shouldn't die because their parents are idiots.

it's eugenics, but legal, why shouldn't we? Clearly letting them live up till now hasn't served them well.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pathogens don't care whether or not you spread them to other people who don't drink raw milk, I'm afraid.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago (17 children)

And people who care, actually do things like get vaccines, and believe doctors.

[–] mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Unless they can't, some people are immunocompromised. The world is more complicated than you think, so try thinking instead of reacting.

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Let them drink it.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Cows are getting avian influenza. Farm workers are getting it from the chickens and cows. There is concern that people may eventually catch bird flu from raw milk. The more people get infected, the greater the odds that a mutation will develop that allows human to human transmission. Unfortunately, we may, yet again, have all of our lives and livelihoods threatened by people too ignorant to take even the most basic precautions for self preservation.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.

Not for long, they won't, because they won't be allowed to.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Beautiful ... the Darwin Awards are now coming to your grocery store

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I drank milk from the tank and cream is the best. However, I still prefer pasteurized milk. If the MAGAts want to drink raw milk, let them and watch the green apple splatter flow.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But I can still get the pasteurized stuff, right?

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 165 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Fun fact: nearly 40% of all foodborne illnesses were caused by raw milk consumption. Pasteurization has reduced that number down to less than 1%, except in places where raw milk consumption is still allowed.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Been only buying organic milk for 10+ years now out of preference, it stays fresh for much longer than normal milk. This is because USDA Organic milk is ultra-pasteurized in almost the same way as shelf-stable milk.

I searched and found this article and they reported that there's virtually no difference in nutrients between the options:

https://www.100daysofrealfood.com/is-ultra-pasteurized-milk-bad/

So if all the nutrients are the same, the only difference in less pasteurization is more bacteria. Fuck that!

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[–] rivan@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

Big year for Tuberculosis

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Humans shouldnt be drinking cow milk anymore anyways.

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You know what, just let it happen. I'll just do my best to stay away from any milk for four years. We'll see how things turn out afterwards.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 24 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Sorry but how the fuck are insurance companies OK with this? They hold extreme amounts of power over the US. They are going to have to do ridiculous amounts of payouts for hospital bills.

How the fuck are people's life saving surgeries getting denied at pre-approval, but they are not denying people's coverage for fucking drinking raw milk??

[–] rivan@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

You haven't heard? AI is going to automatically deny all those claims, problem solved.

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they die they die. It's a risk I'm willing to take

[–] lgmjon64@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (25 children)

Except they're also giving it to their kids, who are far more susceptible to the diseases

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (7 children)

At least this time the disease will stay confined to the stupid.

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[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 87 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately it's not that simple. Avian flu and other viruses can potentially spread from cows to humans, where it's more likely to mutate and spread. It's never the risk-accepters that suffer most. It's always the sick, the poor, the very young and the very old, and the healthcare workers who suffer. The people who refused to get vaccines or take even basic precautions with COVID killed a lot of people, while the vast majority of those assholes survived.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago (20 children)

Can anyone explain to me why conservatives love raw milk so much? Is it like more profitable or something? Why the hell does this keep coming up?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 102 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Science-denying anti-intellectualism mixed with "you can't tell me what to do!"

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