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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 180 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I bet the solution is so fast, it’s past your eyes before you know it.

Edit: for anybody who is hearing impaired.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like something a guy named Louie would think of.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago

idk, seems like an idea that should be sent out to pasture.

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It’s so bizarre to see this discussion play out on the basis of “health”

Because there is a legitimate discussion to be had about the economics of how milk pasteurization requirements have affected local dairy farms. How the unsanitary conditions of industrial scale milk production have made it a necessity. How marketing and corporate interests have shifted consumption patterns.

And yet these fucking dipshits have turned this in to “pasteurized milk personally harms you!” In grifter circles.

How screwed are we that we can’t talk about the complexities of how corporate farming practices have effected our food supplies with out couching it in terms of “health food”.

I cannot express how much I hate the term “health food”. There is no such fucking thing as a “health food”.

It makes me want to rip my hair out when these topics come up.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 66 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave...

[–] uis@lemm.ee 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He is boiling in his grave. Probably milk.

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~~rolling~~ curdling

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 132 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Fun fact:

The dairy was fined in 2023 for a Salmonella outbreak and is very militantly anti-government.

The why seems pretty clear.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I've seen some shit claiming pasteurization is harmful and I just have to ask if the people who believe that know what pasteurization even is, because how the hell does boiling it make it harmful? Shit... If boiling milk makes it toxic, you better stay away from cheese. And a lot of baked goods. Creamy soups. Pasta dishes. Etc.

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 28 points 5 days ago

Not even fully boiling. To quote Wikipedia, because I'm lazy:

The liquid moves in a controlled, continuous flow while subjected to temperatures of 71.5 °C (160 °F) to 74 °C (165 °F), for about 15 to 30 seconds, followed by rapid cooling to between 4 °C (39.2 °F) and 5.5 °C (42 °F).

Literally 30 seconds of "pretty hot". And people are risking serious illness, even death, over some mythical beliefs about how nutrition works.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 days ago

This is the whole “gluten is poison” (for people not actually intolerant to gluten) all over again. Those people also had no idea that it was just wheat protein.

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 131 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Some relatively unknown French microbiologist is rolling in his grave right now.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 55 points 6 days ago

Sacre Bleu!

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 69 points 6 days ago (90 children)

Am i seeing this right, that you can buy raw milk in grocery stores? What the fuck?

Raw milk gets bad way to fast in order to sell it in a grocery store.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Imagine deliberately paying a premium for food that can make you seriously ill.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 62 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Crazy how if it was any democrat saying drink raw milk s/he would likely be accused of a conspiracy in which he is trying to spread bird flu so they can have another pandemic and vaccine manufacturers make money out of it. But when a republican says it, s/he is probably celebrated for using the wisdom of our grand grand parents.

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 39 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Damn.
I didn't have "Raw Milk encouraged by the US govt. causes second pandemic in 5 years" on my bingo card for 2025.

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[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 87 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm cool with idiots who don't know any better getting what's coming to them... but I'm not really cool with them sneezing on the same door handles I turn.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 69 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wonder if they tried heating the milk up to 63 degrees C for 30 mins before consumption?

Maybe that would help.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Nah just add a little ivermectin and you're good!

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why would you say crazy, nonsense things like that?

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[–] baropithecus@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm told that if you mix in some bleach, it'll "do a tremendous number" on the pathogens.

[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 88 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Just have a spoon of pesticides after drinking that pure natural raw milk. If it's good for the corn it's good for you.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Throw in some powerful antibiotics too ... if it's good for the cow, it's good for you

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

if it’s good for the cow, it’s good for you

Must undergo a rectal palpation first, in order to ~~asses~~ assess health.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

For the other non scientists here is a good article explaining what "raw milk" is. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/dangers-raw-milk-arise-bacteria

TLDR: they boil milk to nuke bacteria, "raw milk" is what they call milk that hasn't had that happen and is dangerous, especially considering recent events.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is this why Mister Brain Worms wants to sell raw milk? So bird flu spreads since worms hate birds

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago

America, home of the brave and land of fucking around and finding out.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Maybe ingest it and then use UV light or inject bleach. I hear Ivermectin helps against everything.

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[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 20 points 5 days ago

Food safety is communism!

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave, watching them raw milk drinkers.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago (13 children)

There is a way. Just mix it with equal parts hard liquor.

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