Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)
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#3Why is this normal in Europe, but considered risky in the US?
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#4Why is this normal in Europe, but considered risky in the US?
Not sure. Maybe tighter quality standards for milk production?
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#5Why is this normal in Europe, but considered risky in the US?
In which part of Europe is this normal? The last time I tried raw milk was probably 25-30 years ago and that was minutes after it got extracted from a cow. An average European doesn't even see a single cow for months, unless they live in rural areas.
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#6> a bill that makes it legal to drink (but not sell)
Woah it was illegal to drink! Even if you produced it from your own cow/goat etc?
Personally I have no desired to drink raw milk, but I do hope raw milk cheese becomes more common/legal in the US.
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#7Honestly, I suspect this kind of thing happens as a result of a diet devoid of microbial life and non-denatured proteins.
I used to get not full on sick, but pretty sick after eating raw or partially raw meat. You may think it's crazy, but I just continued doing it and eventually stopped getting diarrhea and cramps.
David Blaine (I think) talked about a similar effect from when he practiced swallowing live frogs. He got sick initially (not gag reflex but something akin to food poisoning) but quickly built up a tolerance.
Maybe these guys did get sick in some way that is beyond a reasonable risk tolerance. I don't know. I just think Americans in particular are weird about their food and simultaneously germophobic so they end up eating a certain kind of diet. Getting sick when eating food that isn't totally cooked may not necessarily mean danger but that the body isn't acclimated to the particular food.
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#8I drink raw milk whenever I can get it and have been doing so for decades. Have not gotten sick once.
I believe most, if not all, dairy farmers selling raw milk are very careful.
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#9Honestly, I suspect this kind of thing happens as a result of a diet devoid of microbial life and non-denatured proteins. I used to get not full on sick, but pretty sick after eating raw or partially raw meat. You may think it's crazy, but I just continued doing it and eventually stopped getting diarrhea and cramps. David Blaine (I think) talked about a similar effect from when he practiced swallowing live frogs. He…
yet there is huge difference. Milk is still easy to digest than meat. You can't compare both.
https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/letter-to-medical-p...
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#10Why is this normal in Europe, but considered risky in the US?
Milk in Europe is pasteurised. The main difference is actually with cheese: making some types of cheese with pasteurised milk is impossible because the cultures in the milk confer flavour etc.