In a press conference on May 1, the CDC, FDA and USDA revealed that recent testing on commercial dairy products detected remnants of the H5N1 bird flu virus in one in five samples. However, none contained the live virus that could sicken people and officials said testing reaffirmed that pasteurization kills the bird flu virus, making milk safe to consume.
Even so, anti-pasteurization dairy advocates have continued their crusade online, with some saying they have begun to intentionally seek out milk contaminated with H5N1 to drink to “build up” what they believe will be a “tolerance” or “immunity” to the virus.
In other words- again- morons are listening to morons on social media insteads of actual scientists and medical experts.
Raw milk- unless you know that cow*- is fucking dangerous. And no, drinking raw milk will not immunize you from Bird flu.
when you are on a farm with a few milk cows- you drink raw milk-from your own cows. Cows you know, and that milk isnt mixed up with thousands of other cows- and if one of the cows is sick- all that milk is tainted. Mind you- I did not care for the taste, even squirted straight from the udder.
If raw milk fanatics want to prove that it’s harmless, especially when bird flu seems to be morphing into cow flu, I wish them well, and hope they chug a lug just about as much udder direct milk they can glug!
(And I also say that milk from a cow is only fit for human consumption once the magical cheese making miracle has been performed. If this bird flu shit makes it into the cheese supply, we’re going to have a problem!)
In the immortal words of G. L. Costanza: “[Louis Pasteur] was in the fields all day with the cows, you know with the milk, examining the milk, delving into milk, consumed with milk. Pasteurization, homogenization. And [Mrs. Pasteur] was in the kitchen killing cockroaches with a boot on each hand.”
This may be excessively cynical, boarding on out and out evil, but I’m in that sort of mood, so my response?
Good.
Okay, got that out of my system. But seriously, in a circumstance where (unlike COVID) the ones bearing the costs are only the stupids themselves, I endorse it. Screw these people.
EXCEPT (!!!) it’s not just them. Sure, mostly, but their family (kids especially!), friends or others who don’t KNOW or can’t agree to the risks are vulnerable.
So, I’ll keep the cynicism to a low burn, and instead hope that only the idjits who go this route suffer all the results of their poor choices, even if I know it to be folly.
There’s also the possibility (how likely, I am not competent to address) that in one or more of these raw milk bird-flu-seeking idiots the virus will mutate into a form that is virulently infectious among humans and kick off a pandemic.
Oh granted, along with the costs to our medical system, which our never-to-be-sufficiently-damned health insurance co-conspirator will use to further reduce protection to any and all they can manage.
Thus the “it’s not just them” - I made the emphasis on the most vulnerable victims, but we’re all screwed by their selfishness. And even discounting that, if some numb-nut were to off themselves from this particular stupidity, it brings pain and consequences onto those who are emotionally involved with or financially dependent upon them.
Thus my whole “cynical verging on evil” mention. I just tired of being the better person sometimes.
So you don’t even listen to yourself. I’ll help you out, you are banned from this thread. And I’m going to issue a warning as you were hijacking threads last night also.
Maybe you’ll start paying attention to the OP and stop hijacking and threadshitting with a warning.
