USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading

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• donuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let this be a warning to the current cabinet pick for health in the US!

  Eh, who am I kidding.

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they support raw milk so much, I suggest we make them drink at exclusively. Let’s see how long they last…

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  • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That is what is great! With the thing trumps administration wants to do, they just won’t detect these things, so nothing to worry about!

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• happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary. One cattle town, Greeley, even attempted to secede from the state over the barest COVID restrictions. Raw milk is a big culture war thing for them and the hippies who flocked to the most densely populated areas of the state. Luckily we live in the 21st century though and it’s illegal for a commercial dairy to sell unpasteurised milk.

  So anyways the dairies are owned by reactionaries who love selling raw milk to other reactionaries. Since it’s legal to drink the raw milk of your family cow, the dairies circumvent food safety laws by selling a “share” of a “cow”. That entitles you to X amount of raw milk per week. The cow is one of hundreds in an industrial dairy being fed chicken shit. The first human case from this current epidemic was a prisoner being used as slave labour to bury all the chickens at an infected farm.

  It’s so much filthier than any of the racist shit hogs said about Chinese wet markets. This is a wholly manmade horror perfectly within our comprehension purely being driven for profit. I hope it ends with crucifixions.

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  • 7bicycles@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary.

    is there anywhere in the western world where this isn’t the case

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    • happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      love 2 separate town and country with no consequences marx-joker

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do people buy raw milk? Does it have material benefits over pasteurized milk?

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do people buy raw milk?

    They’re idiots. Some believe it’s because pasteurized milk had added chemicals, which isn’t correct, pasteurization is simply heat. But idiots will be idiots.

    For others it’s the general anti-science/education bullshit going around now. The crossover with the anti-vax is nearly a circle it seems.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I’m going to buy the least healthy version of the least healthy kind of milk.” —Folks concerned about their health

      I genuinely feel bad. It’s like they’re so close. Going out of your way to care about your health is good. Challenging broad societal assumptions is good. It’s just that this completely fell apart when they arrived at the “now weigh the sources critically” stage.

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    • Mannimarco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can’t cure stupid unfortunately

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idiot conservatives believe raw milk has more nutrients and that its better to be exposed to more harmful bacteria because that will build up your natural immunity, and can prevent you from developing asthma and allergies.

    But none of that is true.

    Raw milk has no more nutrients than pastuerized milk.

    The ‘crowd exposure immunity’ approach just results in needless deaths and suffering, little to no functional natural immunity increase as bacteria variants evolve too fast, as well as providing more vectors for viruses in birds and cows to jump into humans and then mutate to spread from human to human, a potential pandemic.

    And raw milk consumption has no effect on liklihood of developing, nor treating already existing asthma or allergies.

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    • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They should also their pork rare. And chicken sushi of course, that’s how animals do it in nature :o)

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  • electricyarn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s got vibes. Pasteur was working for big pharma and he didn’t want people to vibe out so hard.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember reading a book that was illustrated kinda in the same style that “schoolhouse rock” was animated with, at least the “I’m just a bull, sitting here on capitol hill” song. Dunno about the rest of the series, never saw it. In this book they were telling about Louis Pasteur and his rabies vaccine, they mentioned pasteurization, but didn’t go into how it worked. The book portrayed the vaccine in a ridiculously oversized syringe, and the vaccine inside was soldiers. Probably French legionaries, but I called them Blue Nutcrackers. That book made me understand how vaccines work, and made me comfortable with getting them when I was 6. I wish I could remember what it was called, it really should be required reading.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It can have some benefits, but in most cases the risks outweigh the benefits. You can read more on health.com/raw-milk-vs-pasteurized-milk-8656536 where they have studies linked to back up the claims.

    For US specially it’s more of a way to stick it to the government than searching for any benefits.

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  • ryry1985@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve seen claims that it has more nutrients in it that are destroyed by pasteurization. There are also probiotics that would be destroyed by it. However, you can get these things elsewhere with less risk of contamination.

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  • voluble@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It makes delicious cheese. Pasturisation kills bacteria and denatures enzymes that are helpful in making good cheese. After proper aging, it’s safe to eat. Parmigiano Reggiano is made with unpasturised milk.

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  • Clasm@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They buy it because they are easily spooked by long words such as ‘Pasteurization’ and probably fell asleep during the class that talks about all of the diseases that the Pasteurization’ process is supposed to prevent.

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• BigMacHole@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a Good Thing Trump’s Administration takes this REALLY SERIOUSLY!

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  • fox@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Biden is still the president

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, JFK Jr. Will be on the case soon!

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• eddanja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s cool. That new guy they picked for Department of Health will get it sorted…

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not just because of bird flu one should not drink this.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I saw raw milk being sold at the store and was interested in trying it out

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• Allonzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At this point, a 100% effective ebola mutation would be a mercy.

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• A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If another pandemic happens under the orange waste of a human…I’ll never let the right live it down. They won’t care, but hey, I gotta hold onto something.

  Hopefully it won’t be a deadly pandemic 🤞

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rooting for the virus, what a timeline.

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• Clearwater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Several years ago I had raw milk on a farm and it tasted incredible. I imagine that has more to do with the fact that that it gone from cow to mouth in about 30 second than with pasturization, right?

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  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. The way milk get pasteurized is for speed and volume. They heat it up higher for a short amount of time to kill the baddies (and flavor). There is a slower process without as much heat and that saves some flavor, but big companies don’t use it.

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• Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ate the doodoo

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