Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)

Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by verve_rat on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:25AM (#30810433)

I think we are agreeing here. I was pointing out that baby cows don't immediately die after drinking from their mothers teat, so the same would probably hold for humans.

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by blagie on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:57AM (#30811416)

There's a difference between:

1) Drinking raw milk from the same cow every day

2) Drinking raw milk from a different cow every day (e.g. from a small market)

3) Drinking raw milk from hundreds of random farms mixed together (e.g. as might be processed)

If a cow has a 1% chance of carrying a disease, #1 means you have a 1% chance of getting sick. #3 means you have approximately a 100% chance of getting sick. #2 means you have an estimated time of 3-6 months to get sick, depending on the size of the pool of cows.

Personally, I believe these are the sorts of risks people ought to be able to accept, but only with full knowledge and transparency both about where the milk came from, and of associated risks.

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by John23832 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @06:57AM (#30810778)

I don't think you are. The point being made is that just because some other animal can do some action, does not mean that the same action is ok for humans.

There are animals in the Amazon that can eat poison dart frogs... I doubt you want to try that.

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by cassianoleal on Saturday March 26, 2022 @01:20PM (#30813570)

It does hold for humans. I believe something close to 100% of baby humans drink from their mothers's teats.

That doesn't necessarily mean drinking from another species is safe.

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