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Revenant's avatar

Once again it is born out that living your life on the basis of spite hurts nobody but yourself. Yeah, you anti-science wingnuts really pwned

us by poisoning yourselves. No wonder Bobby Brain worms is shutting down all those fancy pants research labs, trying to save the lives of suicidal wingnuts is a mug's game. Who needs the CDC? Up with snake oil, cures evathang. Make diptheria Great again, you dopes.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

The Supreme Court just ruled that the government cannot regulate anything that might save people from ding of stuff like this. Seems like a return to the 1850s is in season.

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Jewel Heldman's avatar

My aunt (whom I never met) died of encephalitis contracted from raw milk. She got it as a toddler and was an invalid until she was 18 when she died. So yes, people can die from raw milk and those people are most likely children.

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Dyna Moe's avatar

To double down on this, look up the "high meat" diet favored by Reddit Libertarians. Not just "all meat" diets but "high meat." (That's meat allowed to rot; cures all ailments)

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bcb's avatar

I am a BIGLY fan of raw foods: but only the raw foods that the FDA says are safe to eat raw. I like raw carrots, raw spinach, raw brussel sprouts, raw broccoli, raw parsnip, raw nuts, raw oatmeal, raw fruit, etc. Washing fruit and vegetables is good enough! Saves me the trouble of cooking and it tastes great.

I hate how the anti-science assholes have co-opted the phrase "raw foods."

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

I like raw foods too, so back in the aughts when it was a craze I looked into the health claims and didn't find much evidence

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Marcos H's avatar

My prior would have been raw milk types were organic-food only adjacent and not particularly ideologically conservative. I had no idea right wingers had started touting it. I guess it makes sense though: “vaccines bad. Raw milk good.” 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Kelly Norman's avatar

Here’s the thing, I grew up on a dairy farm drinking raw milk every day. It was great and even at 67, I love milk! That said, today, would I drink raw milk that is produced by some unknown cows on some yahoos farm that I’m supposed to trust? Oh helll no. In fact, if I ran out small family dairy (which no longer exists, thank you corporate giants, but that’s another story), I’m not sure I would drink

It today. Too many opportunities for illness out there and I really prefer staying healthy!

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Blue Willow Woman's avatar

There are several African populations that herd cattle and drink milk. Milk is an important source of liquid in arid environments, so if staying alive is important then yes, adult humans in some areas of the world do need to drink milk. To say no adult humans need to drink milk is not accurate and is a racist notion. If you remove the cattle from the Maasai peoples you would kill them.

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Paul's avatar

What water do the cattle drink? Since most of the cattle are already gone, what water do the Maasai use for the crops they now grow? People lived there before cattle were domesticated, how? I'm not sure how these noble savages lived without their one thing they can do.

Somebody IS racist here, but nobody needs to drink milk. Agriculture is more efficient, and everyone can do it, Captain colonialism.

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Blue Willow Woman's avatar

Good grief. The Maasai are nomadic. They don’t grow crops. They move to pastures as they receive rain. Their culture revolves around the raising and consumption cattle but sure, I’ll tell them they are silly and send them a couple boxes of almond milk. And what the hell is the “Captain Colonialism” insult? I’m not the one promoting colonialism. And “noble savages”? Jesus. Get a clue.

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Paul's avatar

You still didn't look anything up? They are already losing their cattle, so they grow crops. That's one of those fact things you can't get around. I notice you also ignored the fact that any culture with cattle has water. Cattle cultures have lots of water. That's what cows drink.

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Blue Willow Woman's avatar

My god, you are a jerk. They were kicked off their ancestral grazing lands and had to turn to cultivation in some areas. But yes, they still consume milk and raising and consuming cattle is central to their culture. You are welcome to go for a visit and tell them they are wrong. They are also known as fierce warriors, so good luck with all that.

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

My mother, may she rest in peace, used certified milk that she bought from a local farmer. Certified milk is a step up from raw milk, since it is pasteurized, but not homogenized. So my mother would skim the cream off this milk and make butter in a 1930s glass churn. She was a dear person, who passed her opinionated nature in life on to her daughter, along with the voluptuous figure resulting from the fact that Mom fried everything but our drinking water. 😂 Even she thought that drinking truly raw, unpasteurized milk was something only a cretin would do. Would that such common sense were still the rule.

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Teddy Barnes's avatar

'Heavy Metal Detox'??? That was easy......I got too old for the pit and slam dancing.......problem solved......

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Bel-Ami's avatar

Back in the early part of the 20th century in Michigan, it was common to loose weaning babies during the Summer. Mom would be pregnant again and they would put the baby on (unpasturized) cow milk and it would get diarrhea and die. It was incredibly common. My father-in-law's family lost two like that. These people are morons.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

I was going to stop wearing seat belts because of all of the Nader 2000 election fuckery with his candidacy being just enough of a spoiler to get Dubya selected but then I realized that Ralph most likely wouldn't be riding with me and I can manage to follow cause and effect so yeah.

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fuflans's avatar

jesus christ this headline made me nauseous.

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GEM's avatar

Here it's the far left that insists on raw milk, ugh. As if I'd even drink the nasty stuff. I do keep Horizon packaged milk for cooking.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Milk is for calves, not humans.

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

I still like drinking milk, not to mention baking with it, so you will have no luck convincing me to stop. I would also point out that cheese made with raw milk is an entirely different matter and is, as far as I know, safe. And tasty.

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3FingerPete's avatar

Campylobacter is my Second Life name.

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