Re:U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encr...
by canadiantim on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:15AM
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Sounds more like inadequate testing than any deficiency in raw milk. It’s still absurd to deny people who want raw milk from obtaining it. Gatekeeping of the worst kind.
Re:U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encr...
by Jochim on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:13AM
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People are prohibited from selling it. You may obtain all you'd like, no one's stopping you shooting it straight from the teat.
An ice cream maker and husband of a dairy farmer puts it better than I could[0].
> My wife is 53 and has drunk raw milk pretty much daily all her life. However, we know the hygiene of our cows and of our milking process, and we know our herd is free of TB and MAP.
> I am NOT a raw milk advocate for the simple reason that these health and safety issues are tough, and serious. So I would not drink the raw milk from another farmer’s cows. There’s simply too much risk.
[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-raw-milk-taste-different-from...
Raw milk itself is not routinely consumed though. Apparently, 95% of the milk used by consumers is UHT[0]. People do get sick from unpasteurised end-products as well:
> In France over the last decade, 34%, 37% and 60% of outbreaks of salmonellosis, listeriosis and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections respectively have been linked to the consumption of raw-milk cheeses.[1]
April this year[2]:
> Five people are sick in France, two seriously, and one in Belgium after drinking a brand of raw fermented milk.
In 2019[3]:
> The Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O26 outbreak was from March to mid-May. In total, 19 cases were identified, with 18 confirmed, of which 17 had HUS and were hospitalized. One child and an adult only had diarrhea. Of HUS cases, eight had neurological complications.
The article mentions another outbreak in 2018.
[0] https://www.filiere-laitiere.fr/en/milk-products/drinking-mi...
[1] https://www.anses.fr/en/content/raw-milk-cheeses-what-are-as...
[2] https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/05/six-e-coli-infections... fermented-raw-milk/
[3] https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/12/report-details-2019-f...