Thursday, 5 September 2019

Raw Milk: It's Not a New Age Trend

quote [ To believers, raw cow’s milk is the next best thing to mother’s own. They boast about its taste and claim that it cures illness. [...]

To critics, raw milk is deceptively dangerous stuff. They claim that even the healthiest cows at the cleanest dairies can shed potentially lethal germs into collecting machines.

The decades-old controversy over whether raw milk should be marketed as a healthy alternative to processed products, or instead be regarded as hazardous and labeled as such, has engaged believers and critics at supermarkets, laboratories and the Legislature. ]

Raw milk, an idiotic California trend that was already decades old in 1988.

The false claims about the health benefits of raw milk haven't changed. This lawsuit is over 30 years old and it wasn't a new trend then. IQs may be increasing slightly with each generation, yet somehow people do not get less stupid.
[SFW] [health] [+4]
[by snowfox@1:09pmGMT]

Comments

lilmookieesquire said @ 10:59pm GMT on 5th Sep [Score:2]
Only an idiot would drink raw milk. *drinks raw water*
lilmookieesquire said @ 1:44am GMT on 7th Sep [Score:2]
I’ve drank raw milk. It’s just like, I understand it’s not safe. Also Japan cold pasteurized their milk and it has a different taste. Ultra pasteurization sucks. You can’t even make cheese with that. Fuck that.
Onix said @ 5:28am GMT on 9th Sep
Cold pasteurization doesn't sound like a good idea considering that some bacteria and other microorganisms go into hybernation or a similar process. But I bet the milk tastes great.
Onix said @ 5:26am GMT on 9th Sep [Score:1 Interesting]
Semi-unrelated story: I love milk and once, in a family vacation in Zacatecas, northern Mexico, I had the chance to drink some milk, almost fresch from a cow, just after being boiled. It was delicious. But the long road back to Mexico City came with the weirdest dizzyness and nausea I had experimented my whole life. It was almost like a bad drug trip without the fun hallucinations. A friend gave me a pill and I felt better for the remaining three hours of a 12 hour trek back home. I still don't know what happened.
snowfox said @ 7:15am GMT on 9th Sep [Score:1 Interesting]
Switzerland has something called frischer Milch, and I think it is unpasteurized. After months of drinking ultra-pasteurized shelf milk, it was awesome. I think the ultra-pasteurized milk has become less terrible or I've become more tolerant of things sucking. Not sure which!
Onix said @ 4:22pm GMT on 13th Sep
I am guessing I got some sort of transitorial intolerance or something. Or maybe, yep, we are getting used to things that suck and are mediocre at best.
mechanical contrivance said @ 1:17pm GMT on 5th Sep
People are stupid. Get used to it.
snowfox said @ 1:36pm GMT on 5th Sep
But I expect them to find at least superficially novel ways to be stupid. Lazy fuckers.
rylex said @ 5:28pm GMT on 5th Sep
people in california are stupider.

it's because of our happy cows. they give us happy milk and happy cheese, laced with the LSD we provide them each and every day as part of a healthy California Diet.
endopol said @ 7:38pm GMT on 5th Sep [Score:4]
I feel obliged to stand up for Californians:
Raw milk outbreaks by state
source
zenviper said @ 7:56pm GMT on 6th Sep
Pennsyltucky, being Florida since 1681.
knumbknutz said @ 1:54pm GMT on 7th Sep
Dude - there's 40 million people in California. I hate it when some clueless little git thinks that 800000 old hippies that live in San Francisco speak for the whole state.
snowfox said @ 2:03am GMT on 8th Sep
I lived in Atwater. Our food market closed but our healing crystal store and weird bespoke furniture stores thrived. I have residual rage. I admit it.
maximumtodd said @ 10:19pm GMT on 5th Sep
Americans won't even buy UHT milk.
endopol said @ 1:12am GMT on 6th Sep
I had some in Spain around 2002. It was great on cornflakes.
endopol said @ 2:49pm GMT on 6th Sep
These were Spanish cornflakes, of course. They l were a little smaller and coarser than what I was used to. I called them "flocos bravos".
Jack Blue said @ 5:22am GMT on 6th Sep
It's almost like we're not supposed to drink it at all.
Paracetamol said @ 6:01am GMT on 6th Sep
The problem might be the handling in industrial quantities. It's normal that farmers may consume their own dairy produce unprocessed or because it's not profitable to have processing machinery for small batches. I even heard of people sign a little declaration of stepping back from pursuing legal matters when buying butter at farm shops.

When handling and transporting larger quantities of dairy produce, processing regulations make sense though.

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