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

Post by dzhiurgis » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 8:52 AM UTC

verve_rat wrote: post #170

paganel wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The first thing my mom (and everyone else) did is to boil the milk to pasteurize it. Same here, in rural Romania (at least that's what my grandma was doing when me and my brother were kids). To be honest though, we (meaning me and my brother) did use to eat the foam-y thing that was present on top of the milk immediately after our grandma or grandpa had finished milking the cows. It was still worm, as it had just c…

Which seems logical on the face of it. Calves drink fresh milk all the time, and they are mostly fine.

Post by watwut » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 8:55 AM UTC

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…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 8:58 AM UTC

guntars wrote: post #157

Reading these comments, if the world ended and the people here were left with a cow, half would starve to death and the other half would get sick. It’s just crazy to me that what was common knowledge a few generations ago is just gone. Yes, milk breeds bacteria like crazy. It’s exponential growth too so it’s bound to go bad and when it does, it happens quickly. But if you had to drink fresh milk that was still warm,…

Post by watwut » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 8:59 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #71

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…

If you made cocoa you boiled the milk right? Thats you pasteurizing the milk, right? I’ll also contend that you probably did get sick but did not put 2 and 2 together at the time (just like how loads of people run around with a cough and a fever and are like “yeah but it’s not COVID”). The whole “I drink this all the time so it’s fine” is basically the whole point of food sanitation things in general. High risk stuff…

Post by watwut » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 9:04 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.