• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Let’s see here, RFK wants to ban vaccines and promote raw milk.
    There is currently a bird flu epidemic in dairy cattle from bird droppings getting into the feed.
    Consuming raw milk is one of the few ways humans can become infected with bird flu.
    I’m sure this will be fine and the virus won’t mutate to allow for human to human transfer, it if it does luckily it only has a 56% mortality rate compared to the Covid morality rate of ~4% during its peak.

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    trump’s appointments are in the style “Who is the worst person i know for the job that lives inside my colon?”

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      if Pablo Escobar was still alive, he’d probably have been appointed head of the DEA

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    Raw milk is dangerous. When I was growing up people would get sick all the time from raw milk it gets contaminated all the time.

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      We can’t even manage to keep listeria out of our waffles and deli meats snd have e coli onions but sure, raw milk will be no problem.

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    If it didn’t risk spreading disease to everyone else, I would totally be on board with letting science deniers drink more raw milk

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    And yet the Amish are healthier than just about anyone. I’ve had the pleasure of having raw milk upon staying overnight with a friend who owned a cow, and it’s vastly different than the chalk died piss water they sell in the grocery store. And I survived!

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      One, Direct from cow raw milk has way less chances of contamination then mass produced raw milk.

      Two, the Amish aren’t going to do into detail about their health issues with someone who’s only spending the night. It’s their normal and what god wants, so why would they?

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      28 minutes ago

      Survivor bias in action. It might be delicious, Andee you can choose to take the risk, but the science is undeniable.

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      Unpasteurized milk itself isn’t the problem. It’s the consequences of trying to milk cows at an industrial scale that are. You simply can’t keep it free from contamination the entire time from the cow to the grocery store shelf.

      Without pasteurization, the pathogens that make their way into the milk are going to fester. Fresh milk from a cow isn’t going to kill you, but drinking that just might.

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    By experts, do they mean anyone that paid attention to science and/or history classes in any developed country?