If you drink raw milk you’re an idiot.

I'm a farmer and was raised on raw milk. I'm near 60 and healthier then most people on here

We drink as a family maybe 2 gallons a day currently

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greensnacks · 31-35, F

@Elessar not just that but the bacteria is very easy to transfer, even if it's your own cow.
Back in the day, they sold raw milk and we always boiled it, then drink it. Boiling is basically replacement for pasteurization

Elessar · 26-30, M

@greensnacks Oh yeah, but one's thing is bacteria from a single or a handful of animals you take care of, one thing is the bacterial load on animals kept amassed in the orders of thousands or more, and dragging on their own excrements 'till they're too old to be economically profitable

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

See I'm quite happy to get grey market raw milk from a cattle rancher I know.

I do that as as adult taking an understood risk.

Flooring the supermarket shelves on an industrial scale is very different. It's like if all chicken in the country was served raw. People will die.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

Mmm, tick-borne encephalitis.. 🥴

seaglass · F

It's a risk, right? Yet I see it on the shelf at my local HFS labeled as "Dog Milk" ( no, it's not dog milk, it's cow milk... for dogs ) because it's illegal to sell for human consumption. It's always been there since I can remember. Apparently it hasn't killed anyone, that I've heard of, anyway

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@seaglass Unless you want to play Russian Roulette with bird flu, I’d avoid it.

seaglass · F

@Bumbles I avoid it for many reasons

greensnacks · 31-35, F

Yeah if you don't boil it.

BeepBeep · F

I agree

ABCDEF7 · M

If it never gone above 4 degree Celsius after pasteurization before you consume.

BlueGreenGrey · M

Pretty much, it only takes ONE unlucky time.

But then adult humans don't need any dairy products to begin with (and tiny humans don't need it from oher animals) ... which just makes the environmental / climate footprint of beef and dairy operations awesomely unnecessary.

90% of the time humanity deserves a 15 km diameter asteroid.

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