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[–] [email protected] 181 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I bet the solution is so fast, it’s past your eyes before you know it.

Edit: for anybody who is hearing impaired.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Sounds like something a guy named Louie would think of.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 weeks ago

idk, seems like an idea that should be sent out to pasture.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Hmm, a sign language pun. Interesting!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Past-yer-eyes milk. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Some relatively unknown French microbiologist is rolling in his grave right now.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 126 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Fun fact:

The dairy was fined in 2023 for a Salmonella outbreak and is very militantly anti-government.

The why seems pretty clear.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Just have a spoon of pesticides after drinking that pure natural raw milk. If it's good for the corn it's good for you.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Throw in some powerful antibiotics too ... if it's good for the cow, it's good for you

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget to sun your taint. I hear that cures all sorts of things

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm cool with idiots who don't know any better getting what's coming to them... but I'm not really cool with them sneezing on the same door handles I turn.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Except the same people end up serving it to their kids

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 weeks ago (19 children)

Am i seeing this right, that you can buy raw milk in grocery stores? What the fuck?

Raw milk gets bad way to fast in order to sell it in a grocery store.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Imagine deliberately paying a premium for food that can make you seriously ill.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He is boiling in his grave. Probably milk.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

~~rolling~~ curdling

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Wonder if they tried heating the milk up to 63 degrees C for 30 mins before consumption?

Maybe that would help.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah just add a little ivermectin and you're good!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would you say crazy, nonsense things like that?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Sorry, I am out of line.

But I do think it could catch on.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Crazy how if it was any democrat saying drink raw milk s/he would likely be accused of a conspiracy in which he is trying to spread bird flu so they can have another pandemic and vaccine manufacturers make money out of it. But when a republican says it, s/he is probably celebrated for using the wisdom of our grand grand parents.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I mean, viruses are kind of Trumps thing. Maybe H5N1 kills another million or so to mark his second term.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm told that if you mix in some bleach, it'll "do a tremendous number" on the pathogens.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 weeks ago

America, home of the brave and land of fucking around and finding out.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Damn.
I didn't have "Raw Milk encouraged by the US govt. causes second pandemic in 5 years" on my bingo card for 2025.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I've seen some shit claiming pasteurization is harmful and I just have to ask if the people who believe that know what pasteurization even is, because how the hell does boiling it make it harmful? Shit... If boiling milk makes it toxic, you better stay away from cheese. And a lot of baked goods. Creamy soups. Pasta dishes. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago

Not even fully boiling. To quote Wikipedia, because I'm lazy:

The liquid moves in a controlled, continuous flow while subjected to temperatures of 71.5 °C (160 °F) to 74 °C (165 °F), for about 15 to 30 seconds, followed by rapid cooling to between 4 °C (39.2 °F) and 5.5 °C (42 °F).

Literally 30 seconds of "pretty hot". And people are risking serious illness, even death, over some mythical beliefs about how nutrition works.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

This is the whole “gluten is poison” (for people not actually intolerant to gluten) all over again. Those people also had no idea that it was just wheat protein.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

Of course it was from Fresno, lol

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Is this why Mister Brain Worms wants to sell raw milk? So bird flu spreads since worms hate birds

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave, watching them raw milk drinkers.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

For the other non scientists here is a good article explaining what "raw milk" is. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/dangers-raw-milk-arise-bacteria

TLDR: they boil milk to nuke bacteria, "raw milk" is what they call milk that hasn't had that happen and is dangerous, especially considering recent events.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s so bizarre to see this discussion play out on the basis of “health”

Because there is a legitimate discussion to be had about the economics of how milk pasteurization requirements have affected local dairy farms. How the unsanitary conditions of industrial scale milk production have made it a necessity. How marketing and corporate interests have shifted consumption patterns.

And yet these fucking dipshits have turned this in to “pasteurized milk personally harms you!” In grifter circles.

How screwed are we that we can’t talk about the complexities of how corporate farming practices have effected our food supplies with out couching it in terms of “health food”.

I cannot express how much I hate the term “health food”. There is no such fucking thing as a “health food”.

It makes me want to rip my hair out when these topics come up.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

Hey, I live there and someone just posted on our local Facebook page asking where to get some raw milk. I'll send them a link.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe ingest it and then use UV light or inject bleach. I hear Ivermectin helps against everything.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

Food safety is communism!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The more deadly pseudoscience that spreads the fewer conservatives there are in America, so I can't say I mind stuff like this too much.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mind it. In isolation it would be fine, but with their ignorance, these types punish and harm their families, mainly their children, who would otherwise just grow up to cut contact with them anyway, long as they didn't end up sharing their views. Plus when it's disease, they just have to walk near a person who isn't another conservative to spread it. As we learned from covid, the best person to be wearing the mask is the sick one, and they don't play along.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Slow pastuerization kills the same amount of microbes as flash... without killing all the flavor of the milk.

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