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2 weeks to flatten the curve guys

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S.

That’s a key word to leave out of the headline god damn. That would mean pasteurization did its job, whereas the headline implies to me “pasteurization does not kill this virus,” which would be a lot more concerning

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

According to an FDA study relying on 2016 and 2019 data, 4.4 percent of Americans report consuming raw milk in the past year, although the number has almost certainly grown since then.

yea

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago

Oh cool, great, the fucking idiots are going to kill millions more people by being actual fucking plague rats again

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (7 children)

That's a way fucking bigger number than I thought what the hell. You gotta like have a guy for that.

It's akin to telling me 1 in 20 of us have a moonshine guy. Which this board may not be the best sample size for as im sure it skews higher than that

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know both a raw milk lady and a moonshine guy 🤔

not interested in either product, but kinda feeling special now to have this direct access to lethal homemade consumables

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Moonshine guy is unironically safer

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna catch TB from moonshine, that’s for sure.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just blindness if they leave the methanol in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's possible if it's adulterated with just methanol but the cure for methanol is ethanol, so the only real significant cases of this happening were when feds were intentionally poisoning supplies during prohibition

https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition.html

Not saying it doesn't happen but it's rare as hell outside of intention

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s the first % of moonshine, so if it’s each jar filled sequentially, the first jar can be deadly, though that’s more with fruit based brandy that grain based.

The problem is quantities of ethanol required to fix it will be too high if you had pure methanol in the early batch.

The early stuff apparently tastes like shit anyway though, so unless they’re completely clueless it’s not likely to make it in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I’ve had homemade moonshine and it’s pretty much tastes likes gasoline even without methanol. I can’t imagine how bad that first bit must be then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guys chill the fuck out if it's from a farm that has vaccinated animals and you consume the product fresh (within the same day or so) it should be relatively safe (although you must boil it before drinking)

The danger of raw milk is when you buy from a dodgy farm that doesn't do Malt Fever vaccinations or you keep it for a few days

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Isn't boiling it before drinking it just over pasteurisation?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used to live in a rural area with a lot of small farms and there was this loophole where you'd pay a company for partial ownership of a cow, and then they'd deliver raw milk to you. This was their way around laws prohibiting the sale of raw milk, since if you own a cow you're allowed to drink the milk raw if you want. So yeah unfortunately there's easy ways to get it if you live near farmers and shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

That's so disgusting 🤢

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't recommend having a guy for that, that's not real raw milk.

Milk comes from cows, not guys.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Maybe it's a new type of guy who just dropped

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Raw milk is a real rural woo woo thing. Rural culture has its own brand of essential oils weirdos that do shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In my city one of the “natural” grocery stores sells it. Shouldn’t be fucking legal.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

“natural” grocery stores

So same thing but double the price?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

More like 1 in 20 households having a moonshine guy which is probably more like 1 in 100 directly interacting with the moonshine guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

In my region 1 in 5 have a moonshine guy and about the same have a milk/egg guy.

1 in 20 have more than one of each

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Good, I'm sad I'll never get to see an awesome fallout style future, but at least these based Chads are making me feel like we're in a future that's lost the benefits of modern science! Them and the people forgoing vaccines are the closest I'll get to fallout!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

Not me sitting here thinking dairy companies are also skimping on the pasteurizing process 👀

Real "The Jungle" hours