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Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous. (kffhealthnews.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

Fair question from a French guy, here, where raw milk is not the most common, but easily available in stores, and recommended in many recipes. What's your opinion about raw milk cheese? Do you also think it's super dangerous? Industrialised pasteurized cheese is absolutely sad and boring, compared to raw milk french cheese (quality, variety, taste and authenticity)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Let them drink it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

its because it is dangerous.

There's literally no point in selling non pasteurized milk, unless you want to waste money and cause potential health issues.

Literally all pasteurization does is heat up the milk, moderately, for a short period of time, and thats it.

It's more cost effective to do at scale, it's easier to regulate, ensuring consumer safety is easier, and ensuring that something happens if your dumbass doesn't do it properly, can also happen. The only reason you shouldn't do this is if you want to pasteurize your own milk, for some reason.

Maybe if you hate having free time, and need more responsibilities you should go synthesize your own fucking motor oil. Not pasteurize milk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

If you want to make Kefir at home you need raw milk. Obviously US goes into Soviet times so they will need it. This and potatoes in every home garden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

No you do not.

Buy and maintain some kefir grains, it's not expensive or difficult and does not require raw milk.

https://culturesforhealth.com/collections/kefir/products/milk-kefir-grains

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I make yogurt all the time with pasteurized milk. Why would “thin yogurt” require raw milk? I have read that you get a thicker yogurt using regular pasteurized milk instead of ultra pasteurized milk, but I have had zero problems making yogurt with either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Kefir is delicious though

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

But I can still get the pasteurized stuff, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Not for long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I saw raw milk sold at school. Didn't understand it. What's the difference? If I gave you two cups with raw and pasteurized, could you tell the difference?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

You can't tell the difference, and that's part of the problem. One has been cooked slightly to kill pathogens and the other could contain deadly pathogens.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Let them drink raw milk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Cows are getting avian influenza. Farm workers are getting it from the chickens and cows. There is concern that people may eventually catch bird flu from raw milk. The more people get infected, the greater the odds that a mutation will develop that allows human to human transmission. Unfortunately, we may, yet again, have all of our lives and livelihoods threatened by people too ignorant to take even the most basic precautions for self preservation.

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