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H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

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post #12

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and replace it with what?

Non factory farming. Prices will go up and this would be a good thing in addition to treating the animals in a more moral way.

Well that make poor folks harder to fulfill nutrition requirements. Especially for kids that'd be devastating.

Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

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post #12

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and replace it with what?

That's the secret, you don't have to replace it. It doesn't produce food, it takes in food and turns it into less but different food. So yeah, plants. It's painful, but we've gone beyond what we can do on this planet.

We’re not even close.

Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

#36
post #9

Maybe, just maybe, we should ease off on the factory farming...

It’s just such a shame all 8 billion earthlings are so addicted to food!

It doesn't need to be produced through the incredible wasteful in-between animal.

People can either eat straight up plant-based food, or alternatively go for lab grown meat. There's no need to go through all the inefficiency and suffering of factory farms.

Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

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There's more alt-milks than I can count. While cow's milk obviously is used to produce other things, we can drastically reduce the need for it by moving to other kinds of milk for the liquid-consumption part.

Which of those alt milks are produced using biodiversity supporting practices? Oat? Soy? Almond?

Almond... Milk?

Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

#39
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Does anyone know if consuming milk containing viral material confers any level of immunity?

Probably not. Unless you have ulcers or open wounds in your mouth/trachea, virus will be digested and destroyed in stomach acid.

Won't the virus be killed by pasteurization which most milk is?

Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

#40
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and replace it with what?

There's more alt-milks than I can count. While cow's milk obviously is used to produce other things, we can drastically reduce the need for it by moving to other kinds of milk for the liquid-consumption part.

Alt milks are usually ultra processed and quite unhealthy compared to regular milk. Not sure this is a viable alternative.
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