My mother told me that when all the American military were sent to England in preparation for invading Europe, they were all required to attend a health class which instructed them to NEVER DRINK ENGLISH MILK OR EAT ENGLISH CHEESE because it wasn't pasteurized and could kill them. Everyone was given a small printed brochure about the dangers of unpasteurized milk, which she kept, and I still had until Hurricane Katrina destroyed it. I wish I still had it so I could fact-check it.
And only about 12 years ago a co-worker's 3-yr-old died from eating some cantaloupe that the parents bought at a local road-side stand which was infected with e.coli. The parents were hospitalized as well, but didn't die. Fortunately, their 6-month old didn't eat any, probably because he didn't have any teeth yet.
A. I grew up on a farm, drinking raw milk, and YES, it really does taste better, but; 2. IT REALLY IS FUCKING DANGEROUS to people who haven't been exposed to all the fucking cruddy bacteria in it, so my parents NEVER sold or gave it to anyone else;. and III. The dairy companies take the dangers of raw milk extremely seriously, and have tons of safeguards to make sure the milk and milk products they sell are thoroughly pasteurized. We used to have "city people" come up to our farm looking for raw milk, sometimes offering A LOT of money for it, and Mom and Dad always noped out. We just had 2 cows for our own milk. But FUCK, it really was delicious.
That sounds exactly like my mother's liver and onions. Nevertheless, my dad loved it. We kids refused to eat it. It wasn't until I lived in Spain that I found out liver doesn't have to taste like and have the consistency of shoe leather, when the family I lived with in Spain made a delicious casserole for supper with what I thought was plain pork, and also potatoes and carrots and peppers and peas and lots of garlic. The meat was juicy and tender. When they told me it was liver, I didn't believe them.
I graduated a really long time ago with a BS in MCBD (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) from CU Boulder. I learned some stuff about food safety. I can tell you that drinking raw milk is like playing Russian roulette with your immune system. If you look at a drop of raw milk under a PLM microscope you'd be sick at just the sight of that shit. Look at a drop of pasturized milk and the whole picture changes. Pasturization isn't just good science it SAVES LIVES! I am so tired of these total fucking idiot assholes thinking science is somehow a force for evil. They want to keep denying science? Fine by me. It's called culling herd. Fuck them. Rant over.
Bio 101 - those little squiggly things you see under the microscope? Some are bad and some are good. The Big Imaginary Dude in the sky wanted us to learn which is which so we'd not kill ourselves....except there are those that decided they know more than the Big Imaginary Dude and are going about trying to kill themselves.
It is a very sad thing. It is my considered opinion that any parent that makes the decision to give their child raw milk and that child gets sick or even dies? That's child abuse at the very least.
But that's not why I'm commenting. According to my mother, her father (whose company moved him every couple of years to go troubleshoot in another state) made it a priority in each new place to find a dairy farm where he could get raw milk. His philosophy was apparently "if they didn't get the milk dirty in the first place, they wouldn't need to clean it." This would have been in the '20s and/or '30s. Gad: that's the 1920s. How could it be a hundred years ago?
I drank raw milk once years ago. In a very short time, my stomach swelled up so I looked as pregnant as this woman...until I vomited it all out of my system, that is. No thanks. Never again.
I got lucky. As I mentioned downthread about 3 or so years ago we bought some raw cream at the local co-op. Nothing happened to us but I would not roll the dice again.
"Wait, what does this say? 'Homogenized?' That's it! Pour that right down the drain! I'll be damned if we are going to drink anything that turns our kids gay!"
OT. By an act of Parliament, on May 18th, I will be re-rededicating America as One Nation Under A Groove.
Can I get a 'funk yeah'?
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At the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, Trump announced, "We are going to rededicate America as one nation under God" on May 17, 2026 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
My mother told me that when all the American military were sent to England in preparation for invading Europe, they were all required to attend a health class which instructed them to NEVER DRINK ENGLISH MILK OR EAT ENGLISH CHEESE because it wasn't pasteurized and could kill them. Everyone was given a small printed brochure about the dangers of unpasteurized milk, which she kept, and I still had until Hurricane Katrina destroyed it. I wish I still had it so I could fact-check it.
And only about 12 years ago a co-worker's 3-yr-old died from eating some cantaloupe that the parents bought at a local road-side stand which was infected with e.coli. The parents were hospitalized as well, but didn't die. Fortunately, their 6-month old didn't eat any, probably because he didn't have any teeth yet.
Yum. Listeria flakes for breakfast.
So long as they aren't green.
A. I grew up on a farm, drinking raw milk, and YES, it really does taste better, but; 2. IT REALLY IS FUCKING DANGEROUS to people who haven't been exposed to all the fucking cruddy bacteria in it, so my parents NEVER sold or gave it to anyone else;. and III. The dairy companies take the dangers of raw milk extremely seriously, and have tons of safeguards to make sure the milk and milk products they sell are thoroughly pasteurized. We used to have "city people" come up to our farm looking for raw milk, sometimes offering A LOT of money for it, and Mom and Dad always noped out. We just had 2 cows for our own milk. But FUCK, it really was delicious.
i'm reminded of the milk defect scene from Napoleon Dynamite.
You could have tied my mom's pork chops to your shoes and run cross country and you would never wear thru them.
That sounds exactly like my mother's liver and onions. Nevertheless, my dad loved it. We kids refused to eat it. It wasn't until I lived in Spain that I found out liver doesn't have to taste like and have the consistency of shoe leather, when the family I lived with in Spain made a delicious casserole for supper with what I thought was plain pork, and also potatoes and carrots and peppers and peas and lots of garlic. The meat was juicy and tender. When they told me it was liver, I didn't believe them.
I graduated a really long time ago with a BS in MCBD (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) from CU Boulder. I learned some stuff about food safety. I can tell you that drinking raw milk is like playing Russian roulette with your immune system. If you look at a drop of raw milk under a PLM microscope you'd be sick at just the sight of that shit. Look at a drop of pasturized milk and the whole picture changes. Pasturization isn't just good science it SAVES LIVES! I am so tired of these total fucking idiot assholes thinking science is somehow a force for evil. They want to keep denying science? Fine by me. It's called culling herd. Fuck them. Rant over.
Stop trying to confuse me with your secular science! If G_d put them there how can they be bad???
Bio 101 - those little squiggly things you see under the microscope? Some are bad and some are good. The Big Imaginary Dude in the sky wanted us to learn which is which so we'd not kill ourselves....except there are those that decided they know more than the Big Imaginary Dude and are going about trying to kill themselves.
My toxicology professor said that drinking raw milk is like licking the floor of a truck stop restroom.
He hit that proverbial nail right on the head.
Sadly, the herd cull tends to take innocent kids with it.
It is a very sad thing. It is my considered opinion that any parent that makes the decision to give their child raw milk and that child gets sick or even dies? That's child abuse at the very least.
Top pic is making me want to listen to Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.
you nailed it … !!!
Hah, heads rule! I had the exact same thought.
What part of germs do they not understand?
Every part. They think that something so small can't hurt them because they are big, strong, and love Jesus.
Even MAGA morons know that wrestling a Grizzly is dangerous because they can see the danger.
But I'll be there are some MAGA that think they can take that grizzly. Be sure and hold their beer for them.
Hey! Milk's good stuff.
But that's not why I'm commenting. According to my mother, her father (whose company moved him every couple of years to go troubleshoot in another state) made it a priority in each new place to find a dairy farm where he could get raw milk. His philosophy was apparently "if they didn't get the milk dirty in the first place, they wouldn't need to clean it." This would have been in the '20s and/or '30s. Gad: that's the 1920s. How could it be a hundred years ago?
I drank raw milk once years ago. In a very short time, my stomach swelled up so I looked as pregnant as this woman...until I vomited it all out of my system, that is. No thanks. Never again.
ACK!
I got lucky. As I mentioned downthread about 3 or so years ago we bought some raw cream at the local co-op. Nothing happened to us but I would not roll the dice again.
This is bananas and I can’t wait for Robyn to pile on with her own write-up!
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/shocking-sex-scandal-rocks-trad-right-elijah-schaffer-sarah-stock?utm_source=direct&r=6ankw2&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
As a trad divorced father of two, he has a bright future in ICE.
It's not hypocrisy, though.
That's a common human failing.
This is straight up fascism and authoritarianism. It's OK if they do it.
I am shocked to my core!
"Wait, what does this say? 'Homogenized?' That's it! Pour that right down the drain! I'll be damned if we are going to drink anything that turns our kids gay!"
In Canada, the cartons used to say HOMO MILK in big letters. We'd giggle over it.
OT. By an act of Parliament, on May 18th, I will be re-rededicating America as One Nation Under A Groove.
Can I get a 'funk yeah'?
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At the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, Trump announced, "We are going to rededicate America as one nation under God" on May 17, 2026 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
https://bsky.app/profile/christiannightmare.bsky.social/post/3me4v42lfis2t
Which god? Zeus?
And by God, he means himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZwwRH6XU
They want Gilead.
They can't have it.
Yeah, that'll fix it!
Then he led them in the traditional airing of grievances.
I don’t like the recent changes to Substack.
I don’t like them as I scroll
I like them even less than coal
I don’t like them it’s not easy
I don’t like them it makes me queasy
I don’t like them I can’t cope
The IT for Substack can go piss up a rope
I suddenly have a craving for eggs and ham.
OT: VOX POPULI
"Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3me3hba7ykc2y
The look on that guy’s face! 😍
"Am I in danger?"
New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/02/04/new-mexico-is-set-to-ban-ice-detention-center-as-bill-goes-to-governor/88367954007/