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.
I guess she’s lucky it didn’t happen in Texas, otherwise they’d hold her responsible
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.
… an expensive process that requires special equipment
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.
The thing that gets me about this raw milk shit is that if your have a problem with “unnatural” shit or whatever, just don’t drink milk. It’s not that hard.
Deliberately ingesting tainted food is just stupid.
Deliberately ingesting tainted food is just stupid.
From your keyboard to God’s ears, man. It’s interesting to me that it doesn’t seem to cross people’s minds that there are a bazillion types of milk too, and you don’t have to drink the nasty kind.
Don’t take health advice from people who failed biology, friends.
Wild that that sentence apparently needs to be typed. Maybe not here on Lemmy, but it just feels like a good exercise to actually type it out.
Also a reminder that the dude has a literal brain worm that he got from eating roadkill. He’s the absolute last person anyone should be taking health or dietary advice from.
