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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

As long as it's not oat flu, should be fine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Just switch to oat/almond/pea/soy/other milk's. Same nutritional benefits, no sick cows involved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Reading this in bed without my glasses and I'll be damned if I switch to cat milk.

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

Same nutritional benefits

Are they?

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/milk-and-plant-based-milk-alternatives-know-nutrient-difference

The macro and micro nutrients are different (but FDA makes a good case for fortified soy milk)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah! And no babies ripped from their mothers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I switched to almond milk years ago simply because the shelf life is 3x or more that of cow's milk. I never go through cow's milk before it expires so it's been great for me. The flavor is a bit different but it's not worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

For me it depends on the brand, added sugars, and what you’re using it for (cooking, cold cereal, smoothies, drinking it straight). This seems to be the case for all of the plant-based milks. But it can be enjoyable finding the ones you like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

But not the same yummy taste, some would say it's an inferior taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The milk is probably safe if it’s pasteurized. Not so sure about the ranchers who are repeatedly exposed to sick cows tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not so sure about the ranchers who are repeatedly exposed to sick cows

Not to leave out many farmers drink raw milk.

Source: Was married into a dairy farm.

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

Drinking it immediately after milking the (healthy) cow is perfectly safe, and people have been drinking unpasteurized milk that was taken from the cow that morning for millenia. The risk/reward ratio is definitely not worth it though if you dont plan on drinking the milk within an hour of milking though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They may be more immune than anyone. Like how milk maids didn't get smallpox because they were exposed to cowpox first.

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

They may be more immune than anyone.

Not all farmers have healthy immune systems and it only takes one.

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

Just as long as they aren’t spreading it to everyone else they run into who doesn’t work with cows.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To conservatives who pushed to get rid of laws requiring pasteurization? No.

To literally everyone else: yes.

Unless you drink milk handed to you by a conservative, who swears that "it's totally safe", then maybe.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Removing safety measures was supposed to only hurt other people, not me!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A 'giant middle finger to experts'

For now, to drink (and, especially, to produce) raw milk "is a way of breaking with convention and raging against the machine", said Weiss, "while engaging in caveman-inspired biohacking".

"Raw milkers want control over their lives", said Weiss, and that includes their food.

We don't need to attribute to malice what can be explained by sheer, unadulterated, absolute, abject stupidity.

Oh well, so long as it is properly labelled, I am actually fine with them having their "freedumbs" - it is rather when they extend out of that zone and try to tell OTHERS what to do with THEIR bodies that they need to be reigned in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that in this case, their freedumbs are infectious. Some conservative raw milk-drinking nut catches H5N1, he might be the "lucky" guy who it mutates in enough to spread from human to human, and then we've got a brand new pandemic on our hands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Exactly. (And I swear I could hear that gif.)