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Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.
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Back in my country, I drank raw milk my whole life and I'd never had an issue. It was sheep milk, not cow, so it could be different. Literal raw milk straight from the udder to the bowl to my stomach. I'm ok with raw milk as long as it's coming from what I raise. Not gonna touch it from a bottle at Walmart god knows where it came from and ~~now~~ how much shit it went through. Plus, all these farms owned by huge corporations feed their cattle shit. So, no thanks.
Edit: to clarify a little more for some folks who might have misunderstood my point. Raw milk in and of itself isn't and shouldn't be harmful at all. It's the condition you put the animal in, the food you feed it and the way the milk is being served that kills people. Our animals were never in cages, they roamed in "god's earth" as some say. They grazed whatever grass came out of the ground and they drank river water. We'd never fed them anything they weren't supposed to eat. We weren't in a hurry for a "profit" to sum it up, we were just living normal. So we didn't have to do shit that would cause chaos. Hope this makes sense. Also, this comment wasn't meant as political at all, just something I got reminded of when reading the post
there's also a big difference between drinking minutes old raw milk directly straight out of the teet, vs commercial operations where the milk is a few hours to days old and is bottled with equipment that isn't perfectly cleaned between each bottle and then consumers sticking it in a fridge for a week. The former is just something farmers are going to do if they want and isn't really a serious public health concern imo (although still not without risk) and can't really be regulated away anyway. the latter exposes way more people and is way more dangerous, and that IS able to be regulated out of existence.
Yup, I'm in 100% agreement on that. I couldn't have said it better. Thank you.