• Grownbravy [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    I've read the best addendum to this too

    "Raw milk isn't that big a deal, you just gotta boil it first!"

    desolate

  • UlyssesT
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    17 days ago

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    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Even worse than the raw water bazingas are the alkaline water bazingas. They process their water to be slightly alkaline for "health benefits". As if that would even survive interacting with stomach acid or have any measureable effect on acidity in the body. It also tastes terrible too.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          Most common antacids have a pH around 10, and for water to be alkaline it needs to have a pH between 8 and 9, so I guess you'd need 10 to 20 times more alkaline water than antacids for the same effect, as the ph scale increases at a tenfold level.

          • hungrybread [comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            Would that even work? Intuitively (I dont remember anything about chem) I would guess that you could take a portion of a tums to get the same effect as alkaline water, but wouldn't be able to achieve the opposite. If you drank an enormous amount of alkaline water such that your stomach acid volume is negligible then the ph of the solution would just be the alkaline water ph, right?

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              3 months ago

              Yeah you're probably right. It's just another reason this whole alkaline water thing makes no sense, on top of the fact that your body strictly regulates the pH levels of your blood.

        • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          Until your blood is brown 🤎

          Edit: if they're drinking "raw water" it's coming from a well which would do that. Methemoglobinemia to own the left

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            • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              3 months ago

              Then there's Garuda which is the the national airline of Indonesia, which is named after Hindu's Lord Vishnu's bird mount, which Indonesia is making into a major monument like the Statue of Liberty.

              Show

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    heartbreaking The worst thing these raw milk cranks have ever done is make me agree with a Matt Walsh take

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I hate all of these movements that are tearing down historic gains in public health. Raw milk, raw water, anti-vaxxers. Fucking loser assholes. They just don't have any conception at all of how much death and misery they've never experienced because of public health regulations.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      The anti-vax stuff really pisses me off, especially when it's spouted by people born before 1960. Polio killed so many children and crippled the ones it didn't. And practically overnight, we developed a miracle cure in the form of the polio vaccine. Completely eradicated in North America when it used to kill thousands each year. There are people alive right now who can remember losing classmates in grade school to polio.

      Then you get into stuff like whooping cough. Basically unheard of for fifty years because of vaccines. Now it's come back and people are finding out it's fucking terrifying to die by coughing up your lungs.

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      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        You can still get listeriosis from improperly made nut milks. Two people recently died in Canada because of that. Listeria bacteria in milk is a particularly serious issue because it can survive and multiply at refrigeration temperatures. So please don't drink unpasteurized almond milk, or try to make your own almond milk using raw unpasteurized almond nuts.

        Thankfully the "raw milk" aficionados haven't started targeting nut milks yet though.

        Okay about that last part, unfortunately it was incorrect. I googled "unpasteurized almond milk" and apparently "raw vegans" are big on posting "raw almond milk" recipes, which make use of raw unpasteurized almonds. Please avoid this crank behaviour and use pasteurised or treated almonds to make your own almond milk.

        Also, I found the instructions in one recipe particularly funny. It involved sterilising the glass containers for the finished milk, but made use of raw almonds and did not involve any pasteurization process afterwards. Struggling to make sense of that...

        • BobDole [none/use name]
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          3 months ago

          Also, I found the instructions in one recipe particularly funny. It involved sterilising the glass containers for the finished milk, but made use of raw almonds and did not involve any pasteurization process afterwards. Struggling to make sense of that...

          The only time this makes sense is for deliberately fermenting something. But that’s not at all what they’re doing, unless they’re trying to cultivate listeria without letting those pesky mold spores compete

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            The recipe also said that their raw almond milk only lasts for two to three days in the fridge. Yeah, there might be a reason for that lol.

            I also just find the whole set up perplexing. If you're going through all the effort of sterilising glass jars in hot/slowly boiling water or in an oven, surely you could pasteurise the final product yourself? It would just invoke heating the milk to 72C/162F for 10-30 seconds, and then cooling it quickly until the temperature drops below 20C/68F. You can do that with the milk in the sealed containers themselves if you know how long it would take to heat and cool to the appropriate temperatures. Or just use a smaller pot containing the milk, and place it inside a bigger pot, first a bigger pot with hot water and secondly a bigger pot with ice water. And then place the milk inside the sterilised containers after the pasteurization. Do raw milk people think that the pasteurization process changes the taste or kills nutrients somehow? I just don't understand it.

              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                3 months ago

                picard

                Hundreds, if not thousands, of years of food safety, science and germ theory goes out of the window because cranks believe that heating milk for less than half a minute at moderate heat kills nutrients...

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        And it's fucking delicious omfg

      • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        i do typically go for oat milk if im gonna drink it. But for recipes that use milk u cant just sub in nut milk all the time.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      The only raw food I want that isn’t fruits and veggies and nuts and.. stuff that’s supposed to be cooked, is sushi.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          True! But they don’t always need to be—meat stuff usually does. The only raw meat I’ll eat is fish stuff!

          But roasted nutz and veggies are DOPE, you’re not wrong!

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    "Raw milk tastes SO much better, man! That's all we're going to drink once we move out to our new acreage."

    • Some dickhead I used to work with, two years before his first child died.
    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      i have some fucked up milk addiction where I get straight up cravings for that shit, it's like a special sort of hunger that is only satisfied by milk (nobody needs to tell me about caseomorphins btw, I already know), and it's wild hearing these raw milk weirdos talk about the taste. it already tastes good! it's like they're not happy without the milk equivalent of shooting fentanyl into their balls

  • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    From what I understand, the only time raw milk makes sense is for making cheese

  • machiabelly [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    Consuming raw milk when you're buying it from a small/peasant farmer that doesn't do much to their cows is one thing. Buying it from factory farms or any large scale operation is another thing entirely.

    Additionally raw milk is actually really helpful for people trying to make cultures. My aunt and uncle used to make keffir and they had way better results with raw milk than pasturized. In their case the fermentation was actually a way of sanitizing the food of harmful bacteria.

    It should be noted that even pasteurized milk can still be unhealthy and cause various health issues, for best results consider tofu-cool

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Consuming raw milk when you're buying it from a small/peasant farmer that doesn't do much to their cows is one thing.

      This is how you get listeria.

      • EstraDoll [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        I thought that was from eating the lunch meat they have at Kroger

      • machiabelly [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        Im not saying that raw milk is better for you. Im just saying that the conditions of the cows vary wildly depending on situation. Like, even if you think raw milk could be ok to drink a super market is realllly not the place to find it.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      Why are we fetishizing small farms? We are communists. You will work in the sovkhoz and you will like it.

    • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      Consuming raw milk when you're buying it from a small/peasant farmer that doesn't do much to their cows is one thing.

      Pasteurization was invented in the 1860s and they felt like they needed it then.

      Edit: Wikipedia says 1886 is when it was first suggested to pasteurize milk. So close enough.

      • dannoffs [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        The 1870s-1900s was probably the least safe time in the US to consume anything.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      In their case the fermentation was actually a way of sanitizing the food of harmful bacteria.

      Wait until you hear about pasteurization. If you're making kefir you're making kefir, if you're sanitizing food there's easier ways

      • machiabelly [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        The point I was making is just that its safe if you ferment it, and that it makes better cultures than pasturized milk