If you drink raw milk you’re an idiot.

@HumanEarth I’m glad.

@HumanEarth how tf is milk raw... You don't cook milk. 😶

@HumanEarth Raw milk from your own farm ain't raw milk from the cattle in intensive farms. Look how the animals are kept there and how the industrial milking process works, then I doubt you'd want to gamble drinking any of that stuff raw/unpasteurized

@SinlessOnslaught Who cooks milk, unless your canning it for long term food storage

@SinlessOnslaught Raw as unpasteurized, not raw as uncooked. Pasteurization is the process where it's briefly heated to sub-boiling temps for a few minutes (or seconds with higher temps iirc) to kill the bacterial load.

Drinking it both unpasteurized and uncooked is about as dumb as eating raw fish that didn't get flash frozen before. You could be lucky and not develop anything ugly from it, but you just need to be unlucky once.

@Elessar funny bears eat raw fish and they're not dead yet

@HumanEarth You think? They're notoriously infested with parasites all the time, many of which could easily kill you.

For that matter the seagulls in my city tear open trash bags with their beaks and swallow whatever shìt they find inside and they look fine, would you start eating random stuff from the trashcan because the gulls are doing it?

@HumanEarth You realize that humans and bears have fundamentally different physiology, right?

@HumanEarth anecdotes are also not facts. Here is some data from the CDC and keep in mind this is from an era where nearly everything is pasturized.

Between 1998 and 2018, the CDC reported that 2,645 people became ill and 228 were hospitalized from 202 outbreaks of raw milk-related illnesses in the United States:

Number of outbreaks: 202
Number of illnesses: 2,645
Number of hospitalizations: 228

@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

@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