A newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child’s mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy, health officials said.
New Mexico officials this week warned people to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products following the death. Interest in and sales of raw milk have been rising in recent years, fueled by social media and growing support from the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement.
These raw milk people think the dairy industry just decided one day to start pasteurizing… an expensive process that requires special equipment… just for shits? People were fed up with watching their children die…
I’m also convinced these people have never seen the hind end of a cow.
Pasteurizing milk started as a convenience for customers; but many now days have forgotten what always happened to milk before it was drunk
People used to home pasteurize all the time; find any recipe in an older cookbook (1970s and before) and the first thing you do is scald the milk. Nobody drank unscalded milk.
The raw milk proponents, who believe it, forgot their own family history.
It’s just heating the milk 162F for 30 minutes.
But the US is obsessed with drinking milk.
Right… so bringing hundreds, or maybe thousands, of gallons of a fatty emulsion up to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time and then chilling it again. Also must be food grade material and will require frequent cleaning/sterilizing. Don’t forget the energy cost either. A lot more expensive than not doing any of this.
Fair points all around.
I imagine most don’t even know what pasteurizing even means. They’re just consuming algorithmically-elevated content with words that health
griftersinfluencers think will scare them into clicks and engagement.