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E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk cheese brand: CDC, FDA (abcnews.com)
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections potentially linked to Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese.

Thirteen people in nine states have been sickened in the E. coli outbreak, including eight who were hospitalized and three who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a potentially serious complication of E. coli infection that presents with bloody diarrhea and fever, according to the CDC. No deaths have been reported, the FDA said.

States with E. coli cases linked to raw milk cheese include California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.

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[–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

I just found out cheese isn't cooked in some way.

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    • [–] 13 points 12 hours ago

    No problem. The owner will donate some money to Trumps pocket, and the FDA will start looking elsewhere.

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    [–] 24 points 19 hours ago*

    You mean a bacteria found in the feces of nearly half the population of dairy cattle contaminated REAL milk? Like, I mean the udders are several inches off the ground and cows notoriously never lay down, so where could this come from?

    Must be big Pasteurizer sabotaging the pure REAL milk products and keeping the sheeple from consuming the REAL milk products the lord has given us. They want us weak and feeble and only untouched milk straight from the udder can grace my temple of a body. No Satan, not today! You will not take my REAL milk from me!

    Oh hey, I seemed to have dropped something ヽ(´ー｀) /s

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    [–] 78 points 1 day ago

    It's almost like Louis Pasteur was on to something

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    [–] 31 points 23 hours ago

    It is almost like raw milk is not a good idea.

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    [–] 24 points 23 hours ago (12 children)

    You shouldn't be allowed to sell "raw" cheese. It's unsafe.

    The people who did so should face charges analogous to, I don't know, attempting to poison a bunch of people. Fucking nail them to the wall.

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  • [–] 15 points 23 hours ago

    It can be relatively safe if the producers are held to high hygiene standards. The aging process kills most harmful microbes. If you're pregnant, though, you should probably avoid cheese from raw milk unless it's been heated.

    And you can pry my boerenkaas from my cold dead hands!

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  • [+] -15 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

    Nonsense. Unpasteurized cheese tastes way better. Labeling should be clear and you make the choice.

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

    I'm not exactly some kind of cheese expert, but I've eaten a lot different cheeses in my day

    I'd agree that on average, unpasteurized cheeses taste better

    But some of the best cheeses I've had have also been pasteurized.

    I think it's mostly the size of the difference kinds of operations and how much care they put into their products.

    There's a lot of mediocre manufactures making pasteurized cheese and they're making industrial quantities of it.

    Whereas the companies making raw milk cheeses tend to be smaller operations where they're putting more care into their product. They can be choosier about where their milk comes from, and are more hands-on with the process.

    But if you can find a brand that puts that kind of care into it but pasteurizes their products, I haven't found there to be a dramatic difference.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

    I want to live in a world where I have to know that some unstandardized label is going to get me sick or not. Yeah. I definitely want to deal with memorizing all that shit and rolling the dice on things we know, generally, make the population sick. Not just cheese. Why stop there? Vegetables, fruits, meat, fuck it. Let's make sure we "label" everything and let masses decide if it's worth the risk or not. Like a game of Russian roulette each time I go to the grocery store. Sounds awesome.

    How do people not just recognize this as corporations saying "enjoy the parasites" we'll sell them to you for profit.

    Like, fuck, the unpasteurized cheese you enjoyed that was source from a local farm one time is NOT what the fuck we are discussing. We are discussing massive corporations that produce the majority of our food deciding that removing health standards is more profitable.

    No one is trying to stop you from the thing you're even talking about. I'm glad you enjoyed the cheese. But that cheese is gonna be gone when the massive corporations start selling it nationwide and push them out of the market because "the thing I can already get" just got allowed to exist on an industrial scale because of lowering health standards.

    Fuck. It's so annoying when people try to apply their individual experience to a nationwide level of production and health.

    Please stop being so fucking stupid. Holy shit. YOU CAN ALREADY GET THAT CHEESE! That's not what we are talking about!

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    I wouldn't try unpasteurised cheese from a big US brand, knowing what the hygiene standards and oversight for cattle are like. That said, I've regularly eaten unpasteurised cheese from Spain, France and the Netherlands and I don't think those need to be banned (in the EU or their respective countries). I don't think they're comparable to unpasteurised cheese from the US though, especially since the budget cuts to the FDA.

    the point is saying unpasteurised cheese is always horribly unsafe is to me wrong. it can be done relatively safely, but in the US currently it will not be done safely.

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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago

    I've had raw milk still warm from the cow, literally watched it get milked. The majority of people don't understand the problems that arise between udder and grocery store shelf are why we need safety regulations or any kind of nuance.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 hours ago

    I admit this rant was too boring to read the whole thing but hopefully you realize that most of the entire world does not require pasturizing cheese. You've got a lot of work ahead of you if that's your goal. In the meantime I'd read the labels carefully.

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  • [–] 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    Perhaps you would prefer to live in a dystopia where the bread is full of sawdust and the milk is rotten.

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    • [–] 24 points 1 day ago

    Why are they hospitalizing these people and investigating the milk? Isn't this what they wanted?

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    [–] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    you can put a brand on something illegal?

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