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This isn’t survival of the fittest. Not one baby in human history was responsible for their own fitness or survival. This is survival of the poorly educated, poorly resourced, poorly connected communities. They’re trying to make ends meet with a baby, and unfortunately they couldn’t do that in a safe manner. It’s a tragedy, a hallmark of human life.
The baby hadn't been born yet. The would-be mother drank unpasteurized "raw" milk.
That's not a case of being poor or poorly resourced. It's a lot harder to source unpasteurized milk than it is to find milk that is safe to drink. You have to really go out of your way to buy that!
Or this is the "find out" moment for a MAGA housewife who spent the last year cheering on RFK Junior and yellilng about the "woke agenda" of pasteurization.
The point is, we don't know. But since RAW milk is both more expensive AND more inconvenient to obtain, I'm going to go with my theory over a poor mother.
Sorry, I didn’t read the “New” in the title; shame on me. Nonetheless, unless this was murder, they were poorly educated and working with propagandized information. I don’t pity them for picking the side they did. I do pity them for the circumstances that led to them believing it was the right choice when they had.
Actually it's not a failure of the poorest of societies. Most the people that are these raw milk drinkers are usually people that are middle class to well off. The poorer end of the spectrum normally just purchase whatever regular milk is in the store cuz that's usually what WIC or mom and baby or whatever else is paying for.
Survival of the fittest doesn't only or even usually apply to a single individual. It only applies to populations and only over a long period of time. Plus the whole thing has been debunked anyways, evolutionary pressure only works till meh good enough levels, not beyond that. It's just a bad saying all round.