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[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 0 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I grew up on a dairy farm and milked cows every day. We never bought "store" milk to drink. It always came from the tank every morning. We also made and ate foods that would cause you urbanites blanch and faint if you only knew, (I miss the home made blood sausage and canned beef my Grandmothers made). It's not a death sentence like many of you seem to think. But, for commercial store bought milk, it IS imperative that the milk is pasteurized for consumer safety. That milk might be a week or two old before it reaches your refrigerator in the Big City/Suburbs/Gentrified neighborhood.

I doubt if drinking raw milk will become common place amongst magahats. It tastes NOTHING like what they or you are used to. It's a whole different thing. And the vast majority of you would hate the taste of it and refuse to drink it. And the first time someone gets the shits from drinking it, they will try and sue the dairy they bought the milk from. And that won't end well.

In Europe they seem to not have the same fear/issues with the sale or consumption of "raw dairy" that we do here in the US. Perhaps they are smarter about such things.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We should have a weekly celebration where conservatives drink raw milk together. Just guzzle it all down you idiots.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone who stopped drinking raw milk as soon as I became aware of the bird flu issue they have whatever happens to them coming. They're incredibly goddamn stupid.

I just like non homogenized milk, it's hard to find pasteurized. Nothing worth dying over ffs.

Your user name is perfect for this comment.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (11 children)

There might be one or two far leftists here. Seriously curious, does anyone here think drinking raw cow's milk is a good idea? Why?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The alt right crowd are weird as shit. Nobody gave a fuck about "raw milk" until the last year or so.

I've seen signs for raw milk in the UK now. The local Facebook groups have tinfoil hat types who think there's a giant conspiracy about Arla (huge milk wholesaler) milk not selling, and taking photos of milk in shops to "prove" it...

The world seems to be in a mental health crisis, and while I'm not suggesting reopening Bedlam lunatic asylum we should probably pay some attention to this. Social media has a lot to answer for

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I work at a tailgate market in a left leaning area. There's always one or two people who come looking for raw milk and I have to explain that the milk we sell is UV pasteurized instead of heat pasteurized, so the proteins are more intact. They're never satisfied with that. They tend to have accents, so I assume they use to get raw milk in their country, but in their country, the milk isn't being mixed from hundreds of cows, possible from completely different farms, so the rick of contamination is much lower where they're from.

I tell them to find a farm and tell them you want to make cheese. It's not my problem if they want to make themselves sick.

[–] neograymatter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

People who make cheese as a hobby have called for the ability to buy raw milk for years.
That said alot of people in the hobby also confuse pasteurization with homogenization. I can get cheese almost as good as raw milk by mixing pasturized skim and heavy cream together. Trying to use Homogenized milk results in a mess.

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the foothold thought was that pasteurization destroys more than just bacteria, and milk might be healthier and/or tastier without having been changed by that process. Of course taste is largely culturally acquired - example A being Germans and UHT milk - but lots of people fancy themselves taste-o-philes.

Then the mistrust of "them" kicked in, and if "they" said the risk of pathogenic bacteria far outweighed any marginal health benefit, the "truth" must be the opposite.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's easier too if you're the one milking, with the exception that pasteurization also extends shelf life

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I feel like it used to be a super far left thing but the spectrum is a horseshoe as I'm sure you know. I also think it comes a bit from the prepper community which tends to be "libertarian"

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Because our ancestors did it and they were strong Chads.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it was originally a "do we really need the government to mandate this" when they were appealing to the idea of like, a small family farm with people idyllically milking a single cow into a bucket. Then that idea morphed into an actual advocacy of drinking it when it got combined with the sort of "crunchy" "paleo" pseudoscience "health nut" movements.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 207 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Okay so they're not getting vaccinated and now they're guzzling unpasteurised milk whilst cattle all over the US are dying of this latest bird flu?

I'm starting to think this right-wing shift might sort itself out

(Before anyone says, I know this is very bad for avoiding another pandemic which won't care about how you vote)

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 117 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's what people said during Covid. The strongest dumbs still survived.

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, we made the mistake of doing everything thing we could to make them get vaccinated.

Next time we know better.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

New ad campaign:

"You survived COVID, even though the liberals tried to get you to vaccinate. You haven't vaccinated to this day because you have an immune system. You're conservative and strong. So when the liberals try again with bird flu, monkey pox, or whatever animal disease they come up with next, just tell them, 'No thank you.'" Make sure the video playing along with the words shows strong manly men - white, of course - with rugged good looks, wearing outdoorsy clothes, doing manly stuff. Guaranteed to convince a bunch of insecure conservative douchebags not to vaccinate. Again.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Waaay too many words. Keep it simple.

Drink America Milk Agian!

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Drink American Milk Now - Dairy US Milk Best

The D.A.M.N. - D.U.M.B. movement.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Keep the typo. Shows you didn't do no book learnin'

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's because the death rate for these sorts of problems is very low and at best is a very weak evolutionary pressure which won't yield results for many generations. Additionally, the heritability of medical stupidity is very questionable.

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 2 days ago (13 children)

You don't really need the bird flu in that mix, even. Pasteurization was a huge public health win.

What next, fridges are woke nanny state inventions and real red-blooded Americans store all their food in room temperature, especially their raw milk and meat?

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago

They richly deserve tuberculosis. Too bad it'll also afflict innocent people.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's because the gubmint told them they can't have it and, like petulant children, they just wanna do what they've been told they shouldn't.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear the "deep state" wants to stop you from eating rotting food. You're not going to let a bunch of scientists and health department officials tell you what to eat, are you?

/s just in case.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Problem is, it won't just affect them. Tuberculosis can spread just fine.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Gullible fucks. How many of them would die if they were told that they can boost their immunity by sticking their house keys in a power outlet.

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[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are they or is that just what the media wants us to believe? I hear the "left" is obsessed with all kinds of things too yet I never seem to encounter these people outside of social media.

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