Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)

Post by onionisafruit » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 6:11 AM UTC

RC_ITR wrote: post #69

mngnt wrote: post #59

When I was a kid, we lived in a village in northeastern Slovakia. On the hill above the village there was a farm with a big herd of cows. And every morning at around 5, a tractor would bring a few dozen litres of milk down to a small shack just by our house. People were usually waiting in line already, in a room that stank of rancid milk, to get a liter or two. When we brought the milk home, we'd pour a cup and let i…

It’s amazing that in a supposedly science-driven forum, an entire set of comments can imply that pasteurization, one of humanity’s great accomplishments, is a folly. People die from drinking raw milk. It is genuinely a risky thing to do. Not everyone will die but enough that society should work hard to limit it as much as possible.

Post by heavyset_go » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 6:12 AM UTC

jmole wrote: post #95

Are baby calves coming down with Salmonella or E Coli poisoning all the time? It seems reasonable that the risk is not in consumption, but letting the raw milk sit around for any length of time. If anyone knows why, I would be curious to hear.

Post by MrJohz » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 6:15 AM UTC

rndgermandude wrote: post #91

MrJohz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Steak is the classic option in American cuisine, but in Germany (and some other countries), raw mince is a sandwich topping that you can buy from the butcher ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett ). Obviously you've got to eat it fresh, but it's not all that bad.

You were quicker with your response than I was ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30809570 ), I concede defeat :D But in my defense, I got sidetracked googling pictures of Mettigel.

Post by jazzyjackson » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

aunty_helen wrote: post #44

elhudy wrote: post #21

I put raw cream in my coffee daily, but don’t have the balls to drink raw milk. That said, it makes fantastic yogurt. I don’t really understand the concept of illegal raw milk though. Why can’t people consume raw milk if they want? If anything, make it illegal to feed to children (except of course, raw breast milk!!)

I’m just catching up on this, can someone explain to me what happens if you drink raw milk? Edit: thanks for the answers everyone. My mum’s a dairy farmer and so was I during my high school weekends. My family’s been drinking raw milk for the past 20 or so years. So it’s interesting to know what scary stuff is out there lurking and that a debate has formed around something I had grown to normalize. Tb is obviously a…

Post by RealityVoid » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 6:18 AM UTC

folli wrote: post #92

rupi wrote: post #83

Growing up in a village in India, we only ever bought raw milk because there was no packaged milk available. Everyone had a deal with a local farmer. Every morning or evening, we would walk over to the farmer's house, pick up our milk and bring it home. My family in India (and the whole village) still does that. And this is where the similarity ends. The first thing my mom (and everyone else) did is to boil the milk…

I think it's a modern western cultural thing that everything that's more 'natural', 'untreated', 'non-GMO'... is automatically considered more healthy, see also antivaxxers etc. Without any evidence of course.