• rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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    7 months ago

    So is it a thing that some health nuts drink unpasteurised milk? I'm not sure if I've dreamt that or not. And I guess at that point we just need a mutation and we're right back at 2019 again, right?

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      7 months ago

      There is a libertarian subsection in this country that makes a stink about SWATs raiding raw milk producers. And individuals that tout the benefit of drinking it unpasteurized.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      Yep. There are people who claim that pasteurization "ruins" the milk, usually with some vague claims about "nutrients"

      Personally I'd much rather nutrient deficient milk that won't give me E-coli, but that's just me.

      • NoLeftLeftWhereILive
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, ehec can very easily kill a person. Kidney failure and all that.

        As a kid my extended family had dairy cows so we often got fresh raw milk from them. It was a small farm, pasture raised healthy animals and a different era. I'm not in the US. Hygiene regulations were very strict where I live at the time and farms were a decent size, animals were treated a lot better than today.

        It tastes very good, but it's still just milk. I would never drink it now of ever get it from some random farm.