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Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say
(idahocapitalsun.com)
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Idaho is a wild fucking state. The number of nutballs that have moved there and occupied it is mind blowing.
So the average IQ is going up... I see that as a win.
Back in my day we used to boil the milk for safety.
Oh wait ... they still do that.
This is horrible.
I really wish the government would release some kind of guidance or documentation on the safe processing and packaging of milk so this sort of thing could be prevented. Really a shame that nobody does anything here, these poor innocent people probably had no idea their milk might possibly be contaminated....
oh wait...
So I have this book from the dark ages that tells you how to do a bunch of old timey farm things. You'll never guess what it says to do with raw milk: BOIL IT.
What's the name of the book? It sounds cool.
'Book'? What is that?
Oh wait I heard about those, it's a stack of cellulose pulp sheets with markings on them right?
I know some people say they are useful for something but I can't imagine what, as nobody ever taught me how to read them.
Pass the milk?
it's a stack of cellulose pulp sheets with markings on them right?
That was way too literate for the tone you intended
Keep it coming. If MAGA wants to kill themselves then let them
And then they become incubators for new zoonotic diseases and kickoff the next global pandemic. What could possibly go wrong.
Don't worry, we too dumb to die! Yeehaw! Y'all got anymore them ivermectins?
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Darwin Awards are continuing to pack to the rafters.
It's their right as Americans to drink the milk with shit in it
And they owned the libs bigly.
I live in Wisconsin. I was hanging out with my dairy farmer friend and for some reason raw milk came up and I mentioned it could easily make you sick.
This guy got visibly upset I remember and began telling me how wrong I was and that he knew better since he was a dairy farmer. I didn't press it but I knew that's the entire reason we pasteurize it.
Fuck you Chris you idiot 😂
I'm a professional milk grader for the dairy industry. It's my job to judge the milk safe for transport to facilities for processing. It's my job to literally go onto dairy farms, test and grade the milk, and pick it up.
We drink raw milk in our house because of it. The dairy farms all drink their own. I do so because I know it's safe for consumption at the farm. I would never recommend anyone just drink or consume raw milk. I would never in my life buy it from a store. I drink it because I know it's safe, and it's my job to make sure it's safe.
Once again though, do not recommend drinking raw milk.
Edit: For the record I'm also Canadian. Our standards for dairy farms and milk testing are astronomical compared to the USA. There's a reason Canada bans US milk in stores.
It’s my job to literally go onto dairy farms, test and grade the milk, and pick it up.
Since we have you here, what are the main values you measure? Or if "main" is too vague, can you tell us what are the ones on which batches of milk fail most often? I'm just curious about how that all works
So I go into the dairy farms. I test visually, smell the milk, and taste the milk. I'm looking for anything that doesn't really taste like milk. Usually caused by over agitation, or the cow's feed changing the flavour of the milk. I take samples for testing at the dairy and also for fat content for the farmers. And I measure the volume of the tank.
Keep in mind I have a college diploma for this.
I've only rejected a handful of tanks in my career, the majority of them equipment failures. Like the agitator disconnecting from the motor so the milk doesn't move around in the tank, or the milk was too warm for pickup (Farmers have one hour after final milking to get the tank before 4C). I also work with the provincial dairy inspectors on things like farm improvements, or changes I think should be made to equipment or how something may be set up.
The only thing I don't test for is bacteria because we need specialized equipment for that which we can't do in the field. But that is always tested when delivering to the dairies before we get the thumbs up to unload it for processing.
If I fuck something up along the way and it turns out to be my fault, I could cost the company between $30-40,000 per trailer. So I need to be 100% sure before I put a milk tank onto my trailer.
Dude this is super interesting and thank you for the time and effort it takes to put all this into a Lemmy comment.
Can I ask: why isn’t it possible to transport lab equipment to conduct bacteriological tests on site? I worked for an ag tech firm and closely with our biologists. Is it because it takes time to culture on an agar plate?
Is it safe to drink fresh milk because bacteria haven’t had time to replicate?
Are there conditions that would mean the milk is unsafe straight out of the udder, maybe in a way that isn’t detectable by flavour?
Why and in what regard do U.S. regulatory standards differ from Canada?
Do you think that widespread antibiotic use in ag will breed superbugs? Is this avoidable somehow?
And finally, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Cheers!
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If only there was long held scientific understanding of the health risks of raw milk, and the benefits of pasteurization. What a wonderful world that would be.
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These people are so stupid and if they were not endangering children I could be content to watch them keep trying to kill themselves.
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"Pasteur" sounds fruity anyway, foreigner?
You’re not a true Patriot if your milk is pasteurized. What are you, some kind of blue haired, gender-confused libtard? Only bitches and minorities drink pasteurized milk.
Is what I would say if I wanted as many fascists to drink raw milk as possible
the milk literally is contaminated with it.
I love that we can take this literally. The raw milk is potentially contaminated by fecal matter...
Fafo
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