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Just for the benefit of future historians, I have to mention Colorado- H5N1's primary origin- and its feral approach to dairies every time I see a story about it.

Obviously raw milk is bad. If you have a counterargument, fuck you I don't care. It's bad and the most rudimentary public health enforcement understands it as such. You can't sell raw milk in Colorado because that's enabling multiple epidemics.

The industrial dairies that can't legally sell raw milk circumvent this law by selling "shares" of a "cow". All of a sudden you're a simple homesteader drinking from your family cow, even if it's raised in the same conditions that enable bird flu using the most infectious methods. A herd fed chicken shit from the same industrial poultry farms that gave us the first case of human transmission after prison slaves were used to cull infected flocks. Every reactionary and granola liberal I know swears by their raw milk supply from these dairies, by and large also antivaxxers and COVID denialists. After seeing this epidemic in the form of a lake full of dead geese, allowing this to happen is the most disgusting thing I've personally witnessed. When people you care about begin dying of this, Colorado's state government manufactured it to benefit their agribusiness donors. It is entirely intentionally created.

Folks, never a better time to go hard line vegan.

Deeply unserious people.

In these cases do they cull the herds? Or is it just like a fuck it, the milk is pasteurized anyway sort of situation. BC if this is true milk prices should go through the roof very soon, $20/gallon type situation

It could be that the testing is not random, but done on herds suspected of having infections. Like how we pay attention to test positivity at hospitals for COVID.

Either way it is still an incredible statistic.

Whoever posted this on Bluesky is ludicrously incorrect. There are around 732 affected herds in California, but California has 11,000 herds. That’s 6.65%.

Also, the presentation is highly misleading. Only one cow in a herd needs to be infected with H5N1 for the herd to be “affected”. There are 1.75 million cattle in California. As little as 0.04% of California’s cattle stock could be affected.

Further, H5N1 doesn’t cause serious illness in cows, just 7-10 days of minor symptoms. We don’t even know that cows can spread it to each other.