• RubberDuck
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    144 months ago

    Why would this happen… we only just campaigned for the legal sales of raw milk?!

    These people want to find out empirically why a lot of the rules existed in the first place

  • Drusas
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    134 months ago

    Tell people not to drink raw milk, and Republicans will start drinking raw milk. They’re trying to catch bird flu.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    114 months ago

    “Raw Farm was linked to a multistate outbreak of E. coli in raw Cheddar cheese earlier this year, and in 2023, recalls of raw Cheddar cheese for salmonella and raw milk for campylobacter. Under a previous name, Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the farm was implicated in E. coli outbreaks that occurred in 2016, 2011 and 2006, as well as multiple recalls when salmonella, campylobacter and listeria had been found in their products.”

    “Pathogens are entirely natural,” [CEO of Raw Farm] said, adding that “our consumers are seeking to rebuild that relationship with the farm and the bugs that naturally live there.” He also said that the company’s products are labeled with warnings that they may contain disease-causing microbes, as required by state law.

    • @I_Fart_Glitter
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      54 months ago

      I mean, if people want to mend fences with E.coli, who are we to stop them?

      • @[email protected]OP
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        84 months ago

        Legally, we should. It clogs up the medical system and FDA with preventable illnesses. Salmonella might permanently weaken your immune system and cause bad lasting effects.

        I got virally induced IBS after I got peaches contaminated with Salmonella in summer of 2020. It was the sickest I’ve ever been, and my body was never quite the same after that. It doesn’t really feel like an illness, more like you ingested rat poison, and your body is desperately trying to get it out of you as quickly as possible for 2-3 weeks, with aftershocks of feeling unwell for many more months.

      • femtech
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        54 months ago

        Fuck that, my daughters daycare just had a bout of ecoli and I got it as well. Was shitty lol

  • magnetosphere
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    104 months ago

    I’m sympathetic towards children who are given raw milk by their parents, and other situations where the person who drinks it doesn’t understand the risk involved. I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who knowingly buy and drink this crap.

  • @poopsmith
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    64 months ago

    I wonder if they can get sued for false claims. They claim to test every batch before bottling. And although there’s a warning, their claims imply that the milk is free of pathogens.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      44 months ago

      It probably is tested, but milk doesn’t test very positive at certain steps in the process (or perhaps at the time of the test, it is clean). The problem the article outlines is that salmonella is shed in cow shit. So there was probably fecal contamination again, since contamination at this farm has happened about six or seven times.

      We pasteurize dairy products for a reason!